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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

6.5 mi, 353 ft, sunrise 7:42 AM, overcast, 21°F

  • 56th fastest pace of 116 timed hikes, 20:29 /mi.
  • Sunrise 4 minutes later than on December 22, 2024.
  • 40°F cooler than the median of 146 logged hikes.
Sunrise from Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, January 12, 2025
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
Focal
13 mm eq.
Aperture
f/2.2
Shutter
1/2060
ISO
50
Taken
1:23 PM

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

6.46 miDistance
353 ftElevation Gain329 ft loss
2h 12mMoving Time20:29 /mi
2h 22mElapsed1:15 PM to 3:37 PM
1,044 ftHigh Pointlow 821 ft
7:42 AMSunrisecivil dawn 7:14 AM, bearing 116°

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 January 12, 2025

7,782 GPS points, drawn from 286 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (810 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on January 12, 2025

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 1:38 PM 22:46 31 ft
2 2:01 PM 23:32 52 ft
3 2:22 PM 21:19 136 ft
4 2:43 PM 20:53 42 ft
5 3:07 PM 23:41 20 ft
6 3:28 PM 20:58 20 ft
6.5 3:37 PM 9:29 52 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 Ground

Route in Relief

The route of January 12, 2025 on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain drawn on a relief model of the terrain, seen from the south-southeast and lit from the south-southwest

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 2:23 PM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 207°, 30° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (11 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

21°FTemperature
90%Cloud Coverovercast, high cloud 0%
4 mphWindgusts 7
96%Humiditydew point 20°F
986 hPaPressure
Low 90%
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.

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