With an eye on the incoming weather, I went for a walk along Buttermilk Trail yesterday afternoon. Minutes from a busy city, a few feet from a busy road, yet it feels like you’re in a forest miles from anyone.

While walking through the area, I call “big quarry”, I noticed something on the hillside a few feet off the trail. Upon closer inspection, it was a touching homemade memorial to Sean N. Lough, complete with bottle opener in the bottom right corner. It had recently been cleared off which explained why I hadn’t seen it on previous trail treks.

I didn’t move into the area until 2003 so after Sean’s death but a quick search on RTD told a story that I hadn’t heard.