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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

7.2 mi, 811 ft, sunrise 7:38 AM, clear, 29°F

  • 36th slowest pace of 116 timed hikes, 21:11 /mi.
  • Sunrise 15 minutes later than on December 1, 2024.
  • 32°F cooler than the median of 146 logged hikes.

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

7.25 miDistance
811 ftElevation Gain871 ft loss
2h 33mMoving Time21:11 /mi
2h 47mElapsed7:09 AM to 9:56 AM
1,477 ftHigh Pointlow 744 ft
7:38 AMSunrisecivil dawn 7:10 AM, bearing 118°

Elevation from the watch: 5-point median, then only climbs over 3 m count. Moving time drops stretches under 1 km/h.

Where It Went

Route and Profile

Route map of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on December 22, 2024

9,060 GPS points, drawn from 302 of them.

Download the GPX (943 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on December 22, 2024

Elevation in feet against distance in miles. The dashed line is where the track was at sunrise.

Mile splits
Mile Passed Split Climb
1 7:33 AM 23:44 75 ft
2 7:52 AM 19:53 60 ft
3 8:12 AM 20:05 143 ft
4 8:45 AM 32:19 502 ft
5 9:06 AM 21:23 0 ft
6 9:28 AM 22:15 10 ft
7 9:49 AM 20:27 20 ft
7.2 9:56 AM 7:32 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 December 22, 2024 on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain drawn on a relief model of the terrain, seen from the south-southeast and lit from the southeast

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 8:40 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 127°, 10° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (14 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

29°FTemperature
0%Cloud Coverclear, high cloud 0%
6 mphWindgusts 11
75%Humiditydew point 22°F
996 hPaPressure
Low 0%
Mid 0%
High 0%

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), 8:00 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.