Bethel ‘trail angels’ earn their wings giving rides to AT hikers

BETHEL CITIZEN • September 20, 2023

“Well, y’all are trail angels now,” Appalachian Trail hiker Griffin Nakovich said when my husband, Michael, and I pulled over at the Rusty Lantern Market on Mayville Road to take him and his friends to Grafton Notch. Lately, AT hikers are all around Bethel it seems. On the trails there is ‘a bubble,’ the hikers explained. The slow walkers who started early and the fast walkers who started later are all in Maine at the same time. When I handed three whoopie pies through the window, Corndog responded, “Oh my god, you guys really are angels.”