Homecoming parade

The temperature was a chilly 38 degrees when the Montezuma-Cortez High School Marching Panthers kicked off the Homecoming parade Friday. Rain, sleet and cold temps didn’t stop the parade, but forced students to bundle up to stay warm.

Montezuma-Cortez High School students decorate golf carts in the Cortez Middle School parking lot just before the Homecoming parade Friday. The carts served as transportation for the homecoming royalty during the parade.

Laura Heaton, 17, pulls Ryan Daves, 17, along the parade route during Friday’s homecoming parade. The pair were part of M-CHS’ FFA parade entry. The moose routine was in reference to Friday night’s Homecoming football game. The M-CHS Panthers played the Alamosa Mean Moose. “He’s a dead moose,” Heaton said.

Major Lackey, a junior at Montezuma-Cortez High School, strains on the wet street to push the junior class’ float after the truck pulling it died during the Homecoming parade Friday.

Sarah Harris, 18, right and Kaila Gray, 15, stay true to the homecoming theme, Blast From the Past, celebrating the 1960s along with Harris’ miniature horse, Bambi.

Aspyn Gibbs, 16, and Krystal Brown, 17, wrap themselves in the Montezuma-Cortez High School Marching Panthers’ banner to try and stay warm during wet, wintry weather at the homecoming parade Friday.

Four-year-old Atticus Keel went to the homecoming parade prepared for foul weather. Dressed in a raincoat, rain boots and holding an umbrella, Keel didn’t let a little rain stop him from collecting candy.