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Amicalola Falls /

Amicalola Falls

2.2 mi, 259 ft, sunrise 7:34 AM, clear, 35°F

Parked at the visitor center and went up the stairs to the top of the falls. The watch only caught the last of the climb and then the whole way back down, so the numbers here are mostly the descent: 865 feet of it. The photo is from the lip, looking down the gorge the stairs come up.

Water sliding over the bare rock lip of Amicalola Falls in the foreground, the gorge falling away below it to the blue ridges on the horizon, winter trees bare on both sides
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
Focal
13 mm eq.
Aperture
f/2.2
Shutter
1/3788
ISO
50
Taken
2:13 PM

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

2.22 miDistance
259 ftElevation Gain865 ft loss
58mMoving Time26:33 /mi
1h 17mElapsed2:05 PM to 3:23 PM
2,693 ftHigh Pointlow 1,815 ft
7:34 AMSunrisecivil dawn 7:07 AM

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 Amicalola Falls on February 2, 2025

4,261 GPS points, drawn from 309 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (436 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Amicalola Falls on February 2, 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 2:50 PM 44:33 259 ft
2 3:17 PM 27:05 0 ft
2.2 3:23 PM 5:50 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.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

35°FTemperature
0%Cloud Coverclear, high cloud 0%
4 mphWindgusts 12
96%Humiditydew point 34°F
929 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.

Same Date

This Morning, Other Years

  • This morning a year later: January 30, 2026, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain. 8.5 mi, 915 ft, sunrise 7:34 AM, clear, 28°F.