Can’t make it to Pamplona for the running of the Bulls? Try Idaho for the Trailing of the Sheep Festival. For an authentic, inexpensive cultural heritage travel experience, check out the 16th Annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival Oct. 11 to 14 in the Wood River Valley of Idaho.
Every year the popular Trailing of the Sheep Festival celebrates the 150-plus-year tradition of moving sheep from mountain summer pastures south through the valley to traditional winter grazing and lambing areas. This annual migration is Idaho living history and a weekend long festival that highlights the people, arts, cultures and traditions of sheep ranching in Idaho and the west.
This is not a reenactment, but a real slice of the American west. This unique cultural heritage Festival, rated as one of the Top Ten Fall Festivals in the World by msn.com, has national and international appeal, drawing thousands each year. For more information, go to www.trailingofthesheep.org.
2012 Highlights include:
§ Authentic Sheep Folklife Fair featuring Basque, Scottish, Polish and Peruvian dancers and music, sheepdog herding sheep shearing and sheep camp cooking demonstrations, sheep wagon displays, storytelling sessions, sheep and wool product exhibits, classes and children’s activities.
§ Culinary events such as Cooking w/Idaho Lamb classes, For the Love of Lamb Foodie Fest, Lamb Feast & Lamb BBQ.
§ A Fiber Festival with classes in knitting, spinning & felting, a fleece competition, exhibits and special lecture by Linda Cortright, editor and publisher of “Wild Fibers” magazine.
§ Special Arborglyph Exhibit: Immigrant Shadows: Tracing the Herders’ Legacy celebrates tree carvings (arborglyphs) left by immigrant sheepherders in mountain aspens throughout the American West. www.arborglyph.com.
§ Championship Sheepdog Trials — Watch 50 of the most talented border collies in the West compete for prizes.
§ Trailing of the Sheep Parade — Witness a “wall of wool” featuring more than 1,500 sheep trailing down Main Street Ketchum.
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