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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

5.1 mi, 211 ft, sunrise 6:30 AM, overcast, 68°F

  • 47th fastest pace of 116 timed hikes, 20:17 /mi.
  • Sunrise 18 minutes earlier than on May 1, 2026.
  • 7°F warmer than the median of 146 logged hikes.
Overcast gray morning on the lake after sunrise, a wooded island in flat gray water, green shore on both sides
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Focal
23 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.4
Shutter
1/359
ISO
25
Taken
7:51 AM
Sunrise
81 min after

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

5.14 miDistance
211 ftElevation Gain220 ft loss
1h 44mMoving Time20:17 /mi
1h 49mElapsed6:07 AM to 7:57 AM
1,071 ftHigh Pointlow 882 ft
6:30 AMSunrisecivil dawn 6:01 AM, bearing 64°

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 24, 2026

6,358 GPS points, drawn from 310 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (674 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on May 24, 2026

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 6:29 AM 21:13 71 ft
2 6:49 AM 20:18 111 ft
3 7:09 AM 20:22 20 ft
4 7:30 AM 21:03 10 ft
5 7:52 AM 21:12 0 ft
5.1 7:57 AM 5:47 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 May 24, 2026 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 6:57 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 68°, 5° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (14 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

68°FTemperature
100%Cloud Coverovercast, high cloud 24%
8 mphWindgusts 16
99%Humiditydew point 68°F
988 hPaPressure
Low 100%
Mid 12%
High 24%

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

Route map; no photograph that morning

9.9 mi, 1,018 ft, sunrise 6:30 AM, clear, 62°F

Sunrise at the same minute

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