So yes, as odd as it sounds, Ketchum (or Sun Valley as most people know the area as), one of the more expensive resort towns, has a sheep festival. Called the Trailing of the Sheep Festival, the event is in it's 13th year and is a weekend long celebration of all things sheep. At one point, the Sun Valley area was second, only to Sydney Australia, in sheep production and herds numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
Today, the farms are much smaller, but the towns still remember how important it was to their history. I went up on the last day of the festival, where they have a parade in which the sheep are led down main street. I setup on the street, surrounded by hundreds of other on lookers and just shot away.
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