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Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain /

Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

3.1 mi, 152 ft, sunrise 6:26 AM, clear, 70°F

  • 10th slowest pace of 114 timed hikes, 22:17 /mi.
  • Sunrise 2 minutes earlier than on May 29, 2026.
  • 7°F warmer than the median of 115 logged hikes.
Streaks of high cloud lit pink and violet over Stone Mountain Lake at sunrise, the far shore dark, the whole sky repeated in still water
Camera
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Focal
13 mm eq.
Aperture
f/1.9
Shutter
1/120
ISO
40
Taken
6:27 AM
Sunrise
1 min after
Color index
36

What the Watch Saw

The Numbers

3.11 miDistance
152 ftElevation Gain119 ft loss
1h 09mMoving Time22:17 /mi
1h 13mElapsed6:36 AM to 7:49 AM
952 ftHigh Pointlow 889 ft
6:26 AMSunrisecivil dawn 5:56 AM

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 June 20, 2026

4,300 GPS points, drawn from 299 of them.

Download the GPX (456 KB): the recorded track, heart rate removed. Open data, CC BY 4.0.

Elevation profile of Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain on June 20, 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 7:01 AM 25:41 0 ft
2 7:27 AM 25:10 119 ft
3 7:48 AM 21:50 10 ft
3.1 7:49 AM 0:27 22 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.

At Sunrise

Conditions at Sunrise

70°FTemperature
7%Cloud Coverclear, high cloud 90%
2 mphWindgusts 4
96%Humiditydew point 69°F
985 hPaPressure
Low 4%
Mid 3%
High 90%

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.

Same Sky

Mornings That Looked Like This

The three sunrises in the log whose sky colors sit nearest this morning's, by the five-color palette under each photograph, whatever the date or trail.

Pink and gold cloud radiating from behind the far shore of Stone Mountain Lake before sunrise, mirrored in calm water Jul 4, 2026 Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain Sunrise from Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain, May 3, 2025 May 3, 2025 Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain Pink cloud over a calm Stone Mountain Lake before sunrise, the far shore and its buildings reflected in the water Aug 22, 2026 Cherokee Trail, Stone Mountain

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