The women the mountain took: Mothers, mentors remembered after Castle Peak avalanche

Movie nights on a garage door.

A porch adjusted with umbrellas to keep neighborhood children shaded.

A last-minute Zoom workshop that never began.

Across the Bay Area and Tahoe region, the women killed in Tuesday’s avalanche are being remembered in the small, ordinary details that defined their lives.

Caroline Sekar, 45, lived on a tight-knit block in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights where children drift between houses and parents trade dinners and carpools. Neighbors described her as the “brightest...