About Me

HikeAlong started as trail reviews and videos, and it still carries them. Since August 2024 the center of the site is a hiking log: one sunrise hike a week, no matter what, most weeks on the Cherokee Trail at Stone Mountain, walked in the dark and photographed from the shore as the light comes.

Every morning is recorded rather than written. The watch keeps the track, the sunrise is computed for that spot, the weather comes from the archive for that hour, and the photograph is scored for its color and reduced to the five colors that filled its sky. How each number is made is on the methods page, the log holds every morning, and the whole thing is downloadable as open data.

A new trail gets a written review once or twice a year. Many of the photographs are for sale at full resolution on iStock and Adobe Stock.