In 2025, Bonfire continues as it began in 1907 and always has been - built and led by students.


Last Shift

Cut

• Kerr County Response
• Cut Class
• First Cut
• Cut II
• Cut III
• Cut IIII
• Cut V
• Family Cut
• Cut VII
• Cut VIII
• Dress Log Cut

Stack

• Centerpole Unload
• Centerpole Raising
• Red/Brown/Green Stack
• Chief Stack
• First Stack
• Stack II
• Family Stack
• Stack IIII
• Memorial Shift
• Stack V
• Dress Log Stack
• Last Shift

Find the "Perimeter Fires" podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, with Bonfire-motivated conversations with people in and around Bonfire, past and present.

Since January - and now still into the 2025 season - I have been hard at work building a new podcast and Gallery studio. Follow progress on Instagram at @dioncgallery.

New "Monday Moti", live "Cull & Good Bull" sessions, and podcast episodes are unfortunately on hold as my time is dedicated to finishing that build-out, advising our Aggies, taking and sharing photos of the 2025 season, and being a husband and father to four young motivators. And a 9-5 job. Thanks for all your patience in the meantime.


Kerr County Response

Kerr County Response (30 images)

Cut Class (36 images)

First Cut (149 images)

https://instagr.am/p/DO3eWG4EX7E

Cut II (61 images)

Cut III (79 images)

October 9 is BONFIRE Day in Aggieland… https://www.kbtx.com/2025/10/09/student-bonfire-honored-kerrville-flood-recovery-efforts-we-had-power-help/

https://instagr.am/p/DQIbhY4j67G

Centerpole is in Perimeter

Cut IIII (44 images)

Cut V (26 images)

Family Cut (110 images)

Cut VII (38 images)

Cut VIII (28 images)

Centerpole Unload (114 images)

https://instagr.am/p/DQXxv50j7yT

Here's a 3rd grader's take on being an Aggie and building Bonfire, whilst I'm getting caught up on a few thousand photos.

https://instagr.am/p/DQx24YPACOi

Planning to go to bonfire for the first time! Any tips if bringing the family?

Centerpole Raising (52 images)

https://instagr.am/p/DRV9JF5AGwh

Many posts to catch up on. In the meantime, the last log was wired in. This is after I broke the Last Shift photo. I'm not a heights guy. But Bonfire has a way of getting something out of you.

Red/Brown/Green Stack (26 images)

Chief Stack (20 images)

First Stack (14 images)

Stack II (29 images)

Family Stack (21 images)

Stack IIII (35 images)

Memorial Shift (16 images)

Stack V (12 images)

Dress Log Stack (55 images)

Last Shift (43 images)

https://instagr.am/p/DRkGHXeAMQX

Happy Thanksgiving, Aggies. Here's something to put on loop when the post-turkey conversation takes one of those turns.