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Devotion embering, troubles burning, campfire flames burn against a low dusk at Deer Creek Campground in Bailey, CO.

Embering Devotion

Kanin Cadam, Photographer/Editor in Chief
August 25, 2025
La Sintra Townscape: Various buildings in Sintra, one of the most urbanized and densely populated municipalities of Portugal. For their second day in Portugal, Conifer High School’s travel group of 42 students and 7 chaperones traveled to various locations within the Lisbon district, seeing historical towns and buildings like the National Palace of Sintra, which was a location of Portuguese royalty that incorporated town celebrations into its walls.

Beyond the Mountain Barrier – Photo Essay

Kanin Cadam, Reporter/Photographer
May 15, 2025
Cassidy Vallin (Left) and Bryan Connolly (Right) from Circus Foundry dance as a part of their show during the opening ceremony of Conifer High School’s 9th annual Peace Day. Circus Foundry is a Denver-based contemporary circus that formed to share their art, help others in the process, and support local under-represented demographics in community gatherings. “Our main goal with your show was to be able to share the excitement of what the circus brings to people throughout the world,” Vallin said.

Kaleidoscope of Perspective – Photo Essay

Kanin Cadam, Reporter/Photographer
April 10, 2025
Senior Laurel Ainsworth tracked and photographed the progress of the eclipse on January 20 over the course of three hours to record the beginning, totality, and the end.

Super Wolf Blood Moon

January 23, 2019
Conifer students dressed in white cheer on the Lobos in the first playoffs game against Pueblo County. The night had a “Greek” theme, so some students took the opportunity to dress up in togas and leafy, golden headbands. Some even came prepared with handmade signs.

Boys Basketball Ends the Season as League Champs

Parker Jones, Managing Editor
March 1, 2018
A vase holding mini American flags and blue tissue paper sits in the center of one of the cafeteria tables. Student government spent time putting up red, white, and blue decorations throughout the cafeteria, in honor of the upcoming holiday. Photo courtesy of Katherine Ryan

Veteran Breakfast

Parker Jones, Staff Writer
November 28, 2017
As the sun disappears, small spotlights illuminate the skeletons and their tombstones. Sounds of cracking twigs and squeaky coffin lids echo from an unseen source. The graveyard near the end of the trail held tombstones with many different inscriptions.

A Forest of Doom… in Conifer?

Parker Jones, Staff Writer
November 7, 2017
Mackenzie Orr, '18, Editor Lucia Lewis, '18, Editor Bailey Sessions, '18, Trinity Foreman, '20, and Samantha Smith, '21, pose with their award for Best Theme Copy at Rocky Mountain Journalism Camp 2017.

Yearbook staffers win big at camp

Staff
July 22, 2017
Career firefighter/paramedic Lorie Hartley, C Shift with the Elk Creek Fire Department, flies in the air to block band director Tucker Ewer's shot.

Unified Basketball Team Beats Elk Creek Fire Department, 88-10

Trinity Foreman, Staff Writer
March 8, 2017
Holding her niece, Jenni Carr (‘17) takes a break from coloring with the toddlers. The AP Psych students spent all of seminar on Thursday, March 2nd, playing with kids and testing various theories. My niece is pretty small, so she didn’t know how to do most of the things they wanted her too, but I think the older they got it went a bit better,” Carr said.

Piaget play day

March 3, 2017
Debris decorates the intersection at Highway 73 and the Conifer High School driveway on the morning of Thursday, March 2, after an accident involving a student and an unidentified male driving a truck on Hwy 73.

Conifer Crash

March 3, 2017
Once on this Island

Once on this Island

March 1, 2017
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