Join an authentic trailing of the sheep down Ketchum's Main Street as part of their annual migration to winter pastures. A band of 1,500 sheep parade down Main Street with sheep ranching family members and herders headed south. The parade includes historic sheep wagons and participants from the Folklife Fair, each identified by sign-bearing dancers from the Footlight Dance Centre. Blessing the flock this year is The Very Rev. M. Jonah Kendall, Rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Ketchum. After the parade passes, you are invited to walk with the families herding the animals to their resting place south of town.

Sheep for the Parade from Faulkner Land & Livestock
The hosts of this year's sheep for the Parade are the men and women of Faulkner Land & Livestock. John Faulkner, a third-generation sheep rancher, first with his father and two brothers and now with his sons, Mike and Jack, has run the sheep operation since 1956. It has been headquartered in Gooding, Idaho, since 1933. Most of Faulkner's sheep run in the Smoky Mountains at the head of the South Fork of the Boise River, in the hills behind Featherville and Fairfield, and through the Wood River Valley north into the Sawtooth National Recreation Area.

In Memoriam
A riderless horse will again be a part of the Trailing of the Sheep Festival's Big Sheep Parade in memory of those we have lost in our sheep family. This year, we remember Ray Easterday, Ron Lopez, John Peavey, Don Pickett, Frank Shrontz, Dick Springs, Tom Stroschein and Ralph "Doc" Wilder.

This August, we also sadly lost “Houdini,” the Big Sheep Parade’s riderless horse for the last several years. He was part of the Lockyer family whose daughter, Elizabeth, successfully rode him winning several rodeo queen titles.