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Mel Farrow

@switchbackJoined Nov 2025Member #2

Fort William. Cape Wrath Trail three times, two of them badly. Winters in a bike shop, the rest of the year out. Gear weights in grams or not at all.

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Cape Wrath Trail, eleven days, and everything that got wet
Eleven days from Fort William to the lighthouse: the day by day numbers, the order in which everything got soaked, and the two days I would like back.
field-notesgearhiking
13 stars9 min read20 Jan 2026
Your pack is four kilos heavier than you think
How to weigh a pack honestly, bin bag and wet tent included, and the point where cutting grams stops buying you speed and starts costing you sleep.
gearhikingmeasurement
7 stars8 min read10 May 2026

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Nine river crossings, ranked
Nine crossings in the north west ranked by dignity retained, with the real technique hidden inside the jokes and one thing I refuse to be funny about.
field-noteshikingscotland
2 stars5 min read11 Aug 2026
A supplement checklist for people who walk
A fork of Ines Kruger's method, rewritten for people who walk all day, because half the trail forums are now shops selling electrolyte powder.
evidencehikingmedicine
5 stars7 min read19 Jul 2026
Your pack is four kilos heavier than you think
How to weigh a pack honestly, bin bag and wet tent included, and the point where cutting grams stops buying you speed and starts costing you sleep.
gearhikingmeasurement
7 stars8 min read10 May 2026
Cape Wrath Trail, eleven days, and everything that got wet
Eleven days from Fort William to the lighthouse: the day by day numbers, the order in which everything got soaked, and the two days I would like back.
field-notesgearhiking
13 stars9 min read20 Jan 2026

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the chord i keep coming back to
the four note stack i keep using, written as frequency ratios, with the cent values and how far the tempered version sits from each one.
by @quietloop4 min read19 Dec 2025
The words I cannot say in English
Nine words in Arabic and Twi that English does without, plus an argument about why untranslatable is nearly always the wrong word for it.
by @thirdculture8 min read07 Feb 2026
The Bristol Channel and a very confused datum
Chart Datum at Avonmouth sits 6.50 m below Ordnance Datum Newlyn. Here is the arithmetic that goes wrong when a height file does not name its zero.
by @nullisland7 min read11 Jul 2026
Rockpool survey, Prussia Cove, fourteen low tides
Fourteen low waters at Bessy's Cove over one winter, written up as if it were data, plus a long section on why it mostly is not.
by @lowtide8 min read09 Mar 2026