Appalachian Trail Cafe

10/07/2026

Bake sale ready Angela Hannafin

10/06/2026

Sorry Folks... We have staffing issues, health issues for Leah, and a plethora of other things happening that need our attention tomorrow.

Reopened THURSDAY W/ Special:
Beef Pot Roast w/ Yeast Rolls
Cheddar Broccoli Soup w/ Yeast Rolls
Apple Crisp
(CLOSED Wednesday per usual)

Thank you to Brookfield for your special order today - we decided Leah would make more today once we heard you enjoyed it so that we could run it this week as a special.

10/03/2026

💒 ☀️ Wedding board for Leah’s childhood friend ♥️ 🥹 his bride looked BEAUTIFUL!! What a beautiful day to be married on!!

09/29/2026

😱 check out this slip!! Takeout for 26 today for Educate Maine 👏🏻 This was special to us as Josh Deakin and Leah Malcolm are teachers themselves (as well as a plethora of our wait staff!!!!!) we seem to collect them.. I’ll tell you why: 9/10 times they can problem solve, multitask& work harder then most 😅 💕 Thank you all for coming to the Katahdin region, doing business with us, and most importantly your service to the students of MAINE 😊

09/22/2026

Let’s make some homemade English muffins!! We have been using the same recipe & method for 30+ years now on these bad boys … Leah’s hands can get a double batch whipped up & into cans to rise within 8 minutes 😅 🤭

09/22/2026

Always be prepared - with love, from the AT cafe 💜

This is a difficult story to read, and an equally difficult one to discuss.

Last week on Katahdin, 64-year-old Bert Goris was found incapacitated on the Hunt Trail during extremely challenging weather. Reports describe rain, strong winds and a wind chill near 20°F. He was having difficulty speaking and moving and had an apparent leg injury.

Two separate hikers stopped to help.

One reportedly left Goris with a tent, sleeping bag, emergency blanket and additional shelter. Another later encountered him and added another sleeping bag. Ultimately, both hikers continued down the mountain when the conditions began putting their own safety at risk.

Goris was later evacuated by rescuers and pronounced dead. His official cause of death remains under investigation.

It is tempting, especially knowing the outcome, to ask why someone didn’t simply stay with him until rescuers arrived.

But incidents like this are rarely that simple.

One of the fundamental principles of wilderness rescue is that we cannot create additional patients. Staying with an injured person in freezing rain, wind and deteriorating conditions may be exactly the right thing to do — until remaining there places the rescuer in serious danger as well.

Ideally, when we encounter someone who is injured, unable to move effectively, or showing signs of significant cold stress, we want to:

• Get emergency services/SAR activated as early as possible.
• Protect the person from wind and precipitation.
• Insulate them from the ground.
• Replace wet clothing or add dry insulation when possible.
• Use sleeping bags, emergency blankets, bivy sacks, tents or whatever shelter is available to slow further heat loss.
• Stay with them while help is coming — if we can do so without becoming another victim ourselves.

From the information released so far, the hikers who encountered Goris appear to have done a great deal with the equipment they had while also having to make an extraordinarily difficult decision about their own safety.

There is another lesson here for all of us who travel in the mountains: your emergency gear isn’t necessarily just for you.

That extra layer, emergency bivy, insulating pad, headlamp or sleeping bag may someday be what keeps another person alive while help is on the way.

Our thoughts are with Bert Goris’ family and everyone involved in this incident.

Be prepared. Look after one another. And remember that sometimes good decisions in the mountains can still have heartbreaking outcomes.

(Image from Mount Katahdin’s Hunt Trail. File/reference photo; not from this incident. Credit to ADVcollective)

09/22/2026

Our phone is down 😞 spectrum is aware … sorry folks!!!

09/21/2026

Broccoli salad 🥦 Corn chowder 🌽
Pumpkin cream cheese bars 🎃 Open 7am-1pm 🕰️