2026 Annual Lab Hike at Tomales Bay State Park

For this year’s annual lab hike, we returned to the beautiful California coast to hike the Johnstone and Jepson Loop trail and picnicked at Heart’s Desire beach afterwards.

From left to right: Steven Gore, Suman Dash, Erin Schwartz and kids, Diedre Reitz with family, Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, Jie Liu, Margherita Heyer-Caput, and Hritika Trivedi at Heart’s Desire Beach.

Per lab tradition, we also played Mölkky, which saw postdoc Suman and undergraduate student Hritika coming back from a slow to start to become this year’s champions!