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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

8.8 mi, 373 ft, sunrise 6:38 AM, overcast, 58°F

  • 17th fastest pace of 116 timed hikes, 18:54 /mi.
  • Sunrise 22 minutes earlier than on April 19, 2025.
  • 4°F cooler than the median of 146 logged hikes.
The park's green and yellow Stone Mountain train, locomotive 6143, coming down the tracks through the pines with its headlights on
Camera
Canon EOS R7
Lens
TAMRON 18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD B028
Focal
18 mm
Aperture
f/3.5
Shutter
1/1600
ISO
3200
Taken
9:51 AM

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

8.81 miDistance
373 ftElevation Gain404 ft loss
2h 46mMoving Time18:54 /mi
3h 21mElapsed6:53 AM to 10:14 AM
992 ftHigh Pointlow 803 ft
6:38 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:10 AM, bearing 68°

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 May 11, 2025

11,367 GPS points, drawn from 304 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (1.1 MB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on May 11, 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 7:22 AM 29:51 30 ft
2 7:45 AM 22:27 60 ft
3 8:07 AM 21:35 81 ft
4 8:22 AM 15:23 30 ft
5 8:37 AM 15:15 91 ft
6 8:57 AM 20:03 40 ft
7 9:21 AM 24:12 0 ft
8 9:59 AM 37:58 20 ft
8.8 10:14 AM 14:57 20 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 May 11, 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 8:50 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 85°, 26° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (20 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

58°FTemperature
100%Cloud Coverovercast, high cloud 50%
11 mphWindgusts 20
98%Humiditydew point 57°F
987 hPaPressure
Low 100%
Mid 4%
High 50%

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.

On the Trail

Seen This Morning

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.

2 days off

6.0 mi, 596 ft, sunrise 6:40 AM, overcast, 58°F

Sunrise 2 min later

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