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Cochran Falls

3.4 mi, 75 ft, sunrise 6:56 AM, overcast, 50°F

Second time out here. The first trip was mostly working out where to park and how to get in, so this one went further and covered more ground. Another Saturday, and again we had it to ourselves. Another photograph of the creek.

Cochran Creek in early March, low clear water over pale stone, bare branches overhead and the first green coming in along the banks
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Focal
13 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.9
Shutter
1/224
ISO
40
Taken
2:53 PM

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

3.43 miDistance
75 ftElevation Gain433 ft loss
54mMoving Time15:44 /mi
57mElapsed3:04 PM to 4:02 PM
1,979 ftHigh Pointlow 1,578 ft
6:56 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:31 AM, bearing 95°

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 March 8, 2025

3,344 GPS points, drawn from 302 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken. One frame was placed by hand rather than measured: Cochrans Creek.

Download the GPX (342 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cochran Falls on March 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 3:29 PM 24:46 0 ft
2 3:49 PM 19:46 0 ft
3 4:01 PM 12:40 42 ft
3.4 4:02 PM 0:40 33 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 March 8, 2025 on Cochran Falls drawn on a relief model of the terrain, seen from the south-southeast and lit from the 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 3:04 PM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 227°, 39° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (0 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

50°FTemperature
100%Cloud Coverovercast, high cloud 0%
13 mphWindgusts 29
88%Humiditydew point 46°F
936 hPaPressure
Low 100%
Mid 17%
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.

8 days off, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

sunrise 7:45 AM, clear, 55°F

Sunrise 48 min later

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1 day off, Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

sunrise 6:57 AM, clear, 60°F

Sunrise 1 min later

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