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1 month ago | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
What, me, worry? Anybody read the paper today? I made that mistake. By the time I was through with the very first page, it was all that I could take: There was lyin’ and cheatin’ and lootin’ and shootin’; the comics were sad, too. Life is just a lump of coal, sometimes; that’s why I’m blue. A dark cloud hangs over the heads of tree-hugging hippies everywhere, as a new government rams through an agenda that might be construed as more corporate-friendly than human-friendly. Gold is trouncing Love.
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1 month ago | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
A day off from school in late February. Early morning drive down to the orthodontist, bald eagles vigilant in their great nests atop the large cottonwoods along the Uncompahgre, Little One asleep in the reclined seat, nestled beneath a leopard-spotted blanket. Today will be a day of celebration. No school, and the removal of braces. No more night-time face-bow wearing. No more labyrinthian flossing and awkward brushing between metal bands and wires.
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2 months ago | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
From out of the chaos comes clarity. From the muck and mire come reason, and a reason for hope. From an out-of-control world comes complete control. From the daily bombast comes a special day, a calming day. Today. This was the first true spring-skiing day on the hill.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
It’s all about the start. Which is to say, in any sailing race, especially in light winds, there is a pre-race, sometimes just as exciting as the race proper, with boats maneuvering behind the starting line in order to have maximum speed and favorable heading when crossing the line. Today, aboard the Lele Kai, we are golden. The regatta had been bumped up a day, with a rage – heavy, gusting winds and unruly seas – forecast for the originally scheduled date.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
Adventure is where you find it, and treasure is merely what you wish for. Mariners from ancient Ecuador traveled to Mexico to gather abalone, whose iridescent shells were prized enough to risk dangerous two-thousand-mile ocean crossings in open canoes. People walked and ran thousands of miles across North America for millennia to seek out feathers and shells. Ferdinand Magellan was able to attempt his circumnavigation because of the Spanish king’s weakness for … cloves.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
We gassed up and got some coffee and took off to hit the desert and turned onto the street. We braked to let an old lady driving an old white Ford pickup by and she glared at us in anger and we got behind her. As we entered the lane a fellow in a white SUV sped up, came in hot and laid on his horn, a big-city honk and we thought, “Jeez.” We were headed to the coast; maybe this was just a farm-town preview. Maybe it’s good to practice leaving home. To practice dealing.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
Atop the pass, a dazzling world of white. Cars line both sides of the road. The sight of rolling meadows glistening with snow, of the groomed Nordic track circling the old wooden sheep corral, continuing down the old railroad grade and out of sight, and small figures scooting along the track, stirs a muscle memory – involuntary, instinctual – in the legs and lungs, a memory that has remained dormant through the summer, the heat and rain, the long work days and lingering evenings.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
I don't remember this trail being this difficult. Rock gardens bump us off our bikes, tree roots grab our tires, slimy rocks in creek beds are slippery danger. My partner proclaims that this trail has always been on the challenging side and I am informed my memory is faulty. Furthermore, next time she's picking the route, and that's final.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
She likes to be weightless, she likes to be upside-down. This is why she likes swimming. She likes the bubbles on her skin. And this is why we're at Silver Lake on a Wednesday afternoon in mid-August. It's ninety degrees, scattered clouds, about perfect. We're not sure why, but there are very few people here.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
telluridenews.com | Sean McNamara |Sean McNamara Doghouse
The trail climbs from the highway, crossing a bubbling creek that, once joined by tributaries downstream, becomes one of the mighty rivers of the west, draining majestic mountain ranges and vast plateaux. Right here, right now though, in the warmth of a sacred and cherished July afternoon, spring runoff having departed for the ocean, it is a little dancing brook, crystalline, colored rocks wavering on the bottom, reflections of sunlight winking, and serves as a dandy tire wash for the bikes.
