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PHOTO: The Gifford’s Ice Cream Eating Contest is one of many events in Rangeley’s Trail Town Festival Sept. 4. (Peggy Yocom photo)
RANGELEY – The 9th Rangeley Trail Town Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, at Haley Pond Park on Pond Street.
The free event will include music, food, storytelling, train information and more.
The schedule is:
11 a.m. — Doug Dunlap, author of numerous guidebooks on western Maine hiking, snowshoeing, and more will talk about outdoors writing. Warren Doyle, an 18-time Appalachian Trail thru-hiker will talk about his hikes and how those who’d like to hike the AT can get support for their own.
Noon — Storyteller and mime Antonio Rocha will present “Nature, My Teacher,” a “hilarious yet poignant” story about his climb up Mount Kilimanjaro and three-day hike on the AT with his thru-hiker daughter.
1 p.m. — Unknown Legend, Rangeley’s duo of Joe Montimurro and Nancy Bessey will perform.
3:15 p.m. — Gifford’s Muddy Boots Ice Cream Eating Contest ($2 kids, $3 adults, free to Appalachian Trail hikers).
All-day events include boot toss, corn hole, AT ball toss, AT map puzzle, AT bead necklace making, rock identifying, a raffle to win outdoors equipment and more.
Maine outdoors organizations will also share information about how to hike safely and how to care for woods and trails, including the Maine Appalachian Club, Trails for Rangeley Area Coalition, Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust and more.
Artists and crafters whose work highlights the outdoors will line Pond Street, including Billdad Soap of Stratton and Rodney Richard Jr., traditional wood carver from Rangeley and Pownal, who will demonstrate jackknife and chain saw carving.
Rangeley Lakes Region Caterers—Jonathan and Lisa Krach—will serve sausage sandwiches as and apple strudel.
Rangeley is one of 35 towns along the 2,180-mile AT to be named an official Appalachian Trail Community. The town received this honor from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy to honor Rangeley as a community that actively protects all of its natural, cultural and recreational resources, including the AT, which runs from Georgia to Katahdin.
