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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

5.5 mi, 379 ft, sunrise 7:19 AM, overcast, 69°F

  • 7th slowest pace of 116 timed hikes, 22:19 /mi.
  • Sunrise 14 minutes later than on August 24, 2024.
  • 7°F warmer than the median of 146 logged hikes.
Inside the covered bridge on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, plank deck lit from the far end, September 14, 2024
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
Focal
23 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.7
Shutter
1/15
ISO
3200
Taken
6:51 AM
Sunrise
29 min before

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

5.47 miDistance
379 ftElevation Gain421 ft loss
2h 01mMoving Time22:19 /mi
2h 11mElapsed6:55 AM to 9:06 AM
1,171 ftHigh Pointlow 836 ft
7:19 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:54 AM, bearing 86°

Elevation from the watch: the watch's elevation was GPS-derived and noisy that morning (steps up to 6.18 m between seconds), so it was smoothed over a minute and only climbs over 5 m count. Moving time drops stretches under 1 km/h.

Where It Went

Route and Profile

Route map of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on September 14, 2024

6,971 GPS points, drawn from 295 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (725 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on September 14, 2024

Elevation in feet against distance in miles. The dashed line is where the track was at sunrise. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Mile splits
Mile Passed Split Climb
1 7:17 AM 21:44 70 ft
2 7:37 AM 20:02 84 ft
3 8:05 AM 28:03 172 ft
4 8:30 AM 24:59 52 ft
5 8:54 AM 24:08 0 ft
5.5 9:06 AM 12:23 0 ft

Each mile as the watch recorded it: the clock at the marker, the time it took with stops included, and the climb inside it. The marked row is the one the sun came up in.

The Ground

Route in Relief

The route of September 14, 2024 on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain drawn on a relief model of the terrain, seen from the south-southeast and lit from the east

Terrain from USGS 3DEP at 10 m, drawn at 2x vertical scale with contours every 40 ft, seen from the south-southeast. Lit from where the sun stood at 7:47 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 90°, 5° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (13 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

69°FTemperature
100%Cloud Coverovercast, high cloud 100%
12 mphWindgusts 22
93%Humiditydew point 67°F
984 hPaPressure
Low 100%
Mid 11%
High 100%

Cloud cover here is the low and middle layers together, the cloud that hides the sun. High cloud is what a sunrise lights up, so it is counted on its own. Open-Meteo archive (ERA5 and IFS analysis), 7:00 AM.

In the Pack

What Came Along

What was in service on this date, by the dates on the gear page. Buy links are affiliate links; see the disclosure.

The full kit, with the mornings and miles on each item.

Other Years

This Morning, Other Years

The nearest logged morning to this date in each other year, within two weeks, from this trail when it has one.

  • Closest weather: (compare). By cloud in three layers, humidity, temperature and time of year.