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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

6.3 mi, 372 ft, sunrise 6:49 AM, broken, 70°F

  • 43rd slowest pace of 116 timed hikes, 20:53 /mi.
  • Sunrise 14 minutes later than on July 12, 2025.
  • 9°F warmer than the median of 146 logged hikes.
The view from the granite top of Stone Mountain over the wooded plain under low gray cloud, pines at the edge
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Focal
13 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.9
Shutter
1/120
ISO
160
Taken
7:33 AM
Sunrise
44 min after

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

6.26 miDistance
372 ftElevation Gain404 ft loss
2h 10mMoving Time20:53 /mi
2h 27mElapsed6:28 AM to 8:56 AM
1,165 ftHigh Pointlow 829 ft
6:49 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:21 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 August 2, 2025

8,540 GPS points, drawn from 311 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (873 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on August 2, 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 6:51 AM 23:00 70 ft
2 7:11 AM 19:32 81 ft
3 7:39 AM 28:28 181 ft
4 8:04 AM 24:15 0 ft
5 8:26 AM 22:39 10 ft
6 8:50 AM 23:45 31 ft
6.3 8:56 AM 5:45 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 August 2, 2025 on Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain drawn on a relief model of the terrain, seen from the south-southeast and lit from the east-northeast

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 7:30 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 74°, 7° 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

70°FTemperature
75%Cloud Coverbroken, high cloud 8%
7 mphWindgusts 15
96%Humiditydew point 69°F
988 hPaPressure
Low 73%
Mid 7%
High 8%

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.

The same date

6.0 mi, 250 ft, sunrise 6:49 AM, scattered, 74°F

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