(16 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Pine Grove Furnace State Park, Pennsylvania - 10 June 2025
1. Ice cream on a table
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:
“1760, okay. So that's, that's about a third of my calories for the day.”
3. Half-gallon ice cream challenge sign
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:
"What I'm doing is eating a half-gallon of ice cream at the halfway point on the Appalachian Trail. It's called the half-gallon challenge. Very appropriately named."
5. Pine Grove Furnace General Store sign
6. Sam Cooper walks into Pine Grove Furnace General Store
7. Various of thru-hiker walking Appalachian Trail
8. Sam Cooper eats ice cream
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Simons, manager at Pine Grove General Store:
“The Pine Grove General Store is the unofficial halfway point of the Appalachian Trail, and it's a stop for hikers for fresh food, the half-gallon challenge and for resupply… they come in to do the half-gallon challenge because it’s a big accomplishment making it halfway through the trail… it’s the tradition… little bragging rights.”
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:
“It was a reward up until right about here.”
11. Thru-hiker Zeke Meddock attempts the half-gallon ice cream challenge
12. Thru-hiker Zeke Meddock is photographed for beating the challenge
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Simons, manager at Pine Grove General Store:
"I feel like it's important. It's a big accomplishment and they want to reward themselves and the hikers just want to you know say, ‘Hey, I did it.’ One more thing that they can say that they accomplished.”
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:
“How many miles we've done so far… 1,090, isn't it?”
15. Thru-hiker walking Appalachian Trail
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:
“Even after hiking hundreds of miles. Nobody should be doing/eating a half-gallon of ice cream. Definitely hazardous for human health.”
17. Various of photos adorning wall
18. Photo of half-gallon ice cream challenge record holder
19. A pint of ice cream
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Simons, manager at Pine Grove General Store:
"There's locals that come in and they told me that this has been around for at least since the 1980s.The record time is three minutes and 37 seconds. We've had many try to beat it but no one's gotten close."
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:
“That's the last bite… we did it!”
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STORYLINE:
Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting. So far this year, about 50 thru-hikers have finished th... [truncated]
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