I still don’t know why the chicken crossed the road — but on Wednesday, the sheep showed us how it’s done at the semi-annual crossing of Highway 55. I’m your Eagle neighborhood reporter, Alexander Huddleston, hearing from the many locals who came out to see the crossing for themselves.
Traffic on Hwy 55 stopped both ways Wednesday morning for the semi-annual crossing of the sheep. Families lined the roadway, and kids could hardly wait.
“This is our third year being here. It’s something we look forward to every year. It’s just something so unique and so different. It’s so Idaho. We love it,” said Star local Lindsey Moore.
It’s a tradition dating back more than a century — ranchers guiding their sheep up into the foothills to graze, and not without a little confusion.
Steve Stubner with the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission laughed, saying, “The sheep decided to take a little detour when they hit the highway. Just a little roundabout. But the herders got them going in the right direction.”…