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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

9.2 mi, 1,041 ft, sunrise 7:38 AM, clear, 54°F

  • 34th fastest pace of 116 timed hikes, 19:47 /mi.
  • Sunrise 15 minutes later than on September 20, 2025.
  • 8°F cooler than the median of 146 logged hikes.
A Delta jet crossing in front of a gibbous moon in a clear blue morning sky
Camera
Canon EOS R7
Lens
TAMRON 18-400mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD B028
Focal
246 mm
Aperture
f/7.1
Shutter
1/1250
ISO
400
Taken
9:22 AM
Sunrise
103 min after

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

9.25 miDistance
1,041 ftElevation Gain1,037 ft loss
3h 03mMoving Time19:47 /mi
3h 38mElapsed7:01 AM to 10:40 AM
1,608 ftHigh Pointlow 760 ft
7:38 AMSunrisecivil dawn 7:13 AM, bearing 98°

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 October 11, 2025

12,622 GPS points, drawn from 309 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (1.3 MB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on October 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 7:20 AM 19:15 20 ft
2 7:45 AM 24:53 50 ft
3 8:04 AM 19:07 80 ft
4 8:29 AM 24:39 282 ft
5 9:10 AM 41:12 463 ft
6 9:37 AM 27:11 105 ft
7 9:56 AM 18:46 0 ft
8 10:16 AM 20:03 20 ft
9 10:36 AM 20:09 20 ft
9.2 10:40 AM 3:43 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 October 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-southeast

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 9:24 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 114°, 20° 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

54°FTemperature
0%Cloud Coverclear, high cloud 0%
8 mphWindgusts 15
85%Humiditydew point 49°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), 8:00 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.