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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

6.1 mi, 374 ft, sunrise 7:09 AM, clear, 42°F

  • 55th fastest pace of 116 timed hikes, 20:29 /mi.
  • Sunrise 28 minutes earlier than on March 22, 2025.
  • 20°F cooler than the median of 146 logged hikes.
Morning sun through fresh spring leaves on a wooded point of the lake, a pine leaning low over the rippled water
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Focal
69 mm eq.
Aperture
f/2.4
Shutter
1/719
ISO
125
Taken
8:52 AM
Sunrise
103 min after

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

6.08 miDistance
374 ftElevation Gain406 ft loss
2h 04mMoving Time20:29 /mi
2h 12mElapsed6:54 AM to 9:06 AM
1,124 ftHigh Pointlow 781 ft
7:09 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:43 AM, bearing 79°

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 April 12, 2025

7,802 GPS points, drawn from 307 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (798 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on April 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 7:14 AM 20:25 20 ft
2 7:37 AM 22:46 50 ft
3 8:00 AM 22:44 202 ft
4 8:23 AM 23:19 71 ft
5 8:43 AM 19:53 20 ft
6 9:05 AM 21:37 10 ft
6.1 9:06 AM 1:33 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. The marked row is the one the sun came up in.

The Ground

Route in Relief

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

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 8:03 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 86°, 10° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (13 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

42°FTemperature
0%Cloud Coverclear, high cloud 0%
6 mphWindgusts 12
88%Humiditydew point 39°F
986 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), 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.

14 days off

Route map; no photograph that morning

8.0 mi, 951 ft, sunrise 6:53 AM, overcast, 62°F

Sunrise 16 min earlier

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