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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

6.3 mi, 487 ft, sunrise 7:27 AM, overcast, 61°F

  • 53rd fastest pace of 116 timed hikes, 20:26 /mi.
  • Sunrise 15 minutes earlier than on January 12, 2025.

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

6.29 miDistance
487 ftElevation Gain506 ft loss
2h 08mMoving Time20:26 /mi
2h 15mElapsed7:07 AM to 9:23 AM
1,154 ftHigh Pointlow 819 ft
7:27 AMSunrisecivil dawn 7:01 AM, bearing 107°

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 February 8, 2025

7,797 GPS points, drawn from 305 of them.

Download the GPX (797 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on February 8, 2025

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

Mile splits
Mile Passed Split Climb
1 7:31 AM 23:38 31 ft
2 7:49 AM 18:01 71 ft
3 8:10 AM 21:12 275 ft
4 8:34 AM 23:53 41 ft
5 8:54 AM 19:54 10 ft
6 9:17 AM 23:00 50 ft
6.3 9:23 AM 6:18 10 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 February 8, 2025 on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain drawn on a relief model of the terrain, seen from the south-southeast and lit from the east-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 8:10 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 114°, 8° 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

61°FTemperature
100%Cloud Coverovercast, high cloud 0%
6 mphWindgusts 10
100%Humiditydew point 61°F
987 hPaPressure
Low 100%
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), 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.