![Alexander Oki ‘28 picks up trash in the lower parking lot Feb. 20. According to Keep America Beautiful, the majority of the trash found on both roads and waterways consists of fast food wrappers and packaging, receipts and plastic beverage bottles. Clubs like the National Honor Society (NHS) offer students the opportunity to earn service hours by cleaning up the trash in the parking lots. “[The trash] makes us look very unhygienic and unmotivated to be a proper school,” Emberlyse Vidal ‘28 said. “It makes us look like we just don't care about our students' environments.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260220_1355020-2-1200x904.jpg)
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
To follow up on his fall walk through nature, Bennett Edlund re-experience’s Colorado’s beauty under a layer of sleepy snow. Take a stroll Waterton Canyon in the winter.
January 7, 2020
All that is gold does not glitter,
Even a river can show what is above; Water that is this still is rather rare on a river, but the great likeness to a mirror is impossible to miss.
Not all those who wander are lost,
While many choose to follow the main road, many choose to make their own; they choose their own spot to set up; And while they may be wandering, they are certainly not lost.
The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost,
The Trees are some of the oldest things around, living for decades on end in the heat and cold, the sun and the snow. While they may not have many leaves in preparation for winter, these titans are still standing strong.
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring,
The sun breaking through the clouds after a day of overcast weather. Weather in Colorado is unpredictable even on a good day, so some light on a cloudy day is a welcome sight.
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken, the crown less shall again be king.
The stone cliffs are a blade in repair, in eternal conflict against the weather. The worn face of stone is the battle line of stone and water. Massive stone pillars such as these represents an immovable object, one that was once placed where it stands.
Image titles are quotes from J.R.R. Tolkein’s “The Fellowship of the Ring”
