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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

7.2 mi, 566 ft, sunrise 6:27 AM, overcast, 69°F

  • 51st fastest pace of 116 timed hikes, 20:24 /mi.
  • Sunrise 13 minutes earlier than on May 9, 2026.
  • 7°F warmer than the median of 146 logged hikes.
Broken cloud over the bare granite top of Stone Mountain, pines and green woods at its edge, hazy country beyond
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Focal
13 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.9
Shutter
1/476
ISO
32
Taken
7:37 AM
Sunrise
70 min after

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

7.19 miDistance
566 ftElevation Gain603 ft loss
2h 26mMoving Time20:24 /mi
2h 49mElapsed6:14 AM to 9:03 AM
1,377 ftHigh Pointlow 833 ft
6:27 AMSunrisecivil dawn 5:58 AM, bearing 63°

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 31, 2026

9,881 GPS points, drawn from 302 of them. Pins mark where the photos were taken.

Download the GPX (1.0 MB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on May 31, 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 6:36 AM 22:36 20 ft
2 6:58 AM 21:49 60 ft
3 7:19 AM 20:23 161 ft
4 8:00 AM 41:18 281 ft
5 8:24 AM 23:39 0 ft
6 8:44 AM 20:52 10 ft
7 9:02 AM 17:51 33 ft
7.2 9:03 AM 0:45 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 May 31, 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 7:48 AM, when the walk reached its highest point: bearing 73°, 15° above the horizon. The green line is the recording draped on the terrain, dotted where the ground hides it (10 percent of the track from this angle). Drawn when the entry was made; nothing runs in the browser.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

69°FTemperature
100%Cloud Coverovercast, high cloud 67%
7 mphWindgusts 13
99%Humiditydew point 69°F
983 hPaPressure
Low 100%
Mid 13%
High 67%

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), 6:00 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

7.6 mi, 677 ft, sunrise 6:27 AM, clear, 58°F

Sunrise at the same minute

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