Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. board member Dale Nowlin is on the final stretch of his fundraising trek this summer, hiking the Appalachian Trail to benefit the Bartholomew Consolidated School ...

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.

On Oct. 15, they reached the end of the Appalachian Trail, on Mount Katahdin in Maine. "I thought long and hard about why I was hiking the trail," Kolodji said. "I wanted that picture on Mt. Katahdin.