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Cochran Falls

3.6 mi, 210 ft, sunrise 7:14 AM, clear, 31°F

Came out with a friend to find Cochran Falls. There is a creek you drive through to reach the parking and another you cross on foot, and the going is rougher than anything else in the log. Saturday afternoon and we saw nobody at all. The falls were not showing much by the time we got there, so the photograph is the creek on the way in.

Cochran Creek running shallow and clear over gold and brown stones, rhododendron leaning in from both banks, winter sun coming through the bare trees above
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Focal
23 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.7
Shutter
1/180
ISO
25
Taken
12:41 PM

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

3.62 miDistance
210 ftElevation Gain393 ft loss
1h 15mMoving Time20:46 /mi
1h 23mElapsed1:06 PM to 2:30 PM
1,991 ftHigh Pointlow 1,600 ft
7:14 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:48 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 Cochran Falls on February 22, 2025

4,885 GPS points, drawn from 309 of them.

Download the GPX (500 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cochran Falls on February 22, 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 1:31 PM 24:56 170 ft
2 1:56 PM 24:34 20 ft
3 2:14 PM 18:36 10 ft
3.6 2:30 PM 15:42 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.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

31°FTemperature
0%Cloud Coverclear, high cloud 21%
1 mphWindgusts 4
40%Humiditydew point 9°F
954 hPaPressure
Low 0%
Mid 0%
High 21%

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.

Same Date

This Morning, Other Years

  • This morning a year later: February 22, 2026, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain. 6.5 mi, 628 ft, sunrise 7:13 AM, clear, 40°F.