Joe's adventures on the trail. Backpacking, hiking, road trips, and town walks with my human dad.
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a local hike from the 10th June 2020. As the pandemic restrictions had been slightly reduced, we felt that we should jump in the car to drive the short distance to the Northwich area. We have walked around the Anderton Nature Reserve and Marbury … Continue reading Saltscape Trail
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a hike from the Goyt Valley in the Peak District. With lockdown restrictions partially lifted we were permitted to travel a bit further for our exercise. We were still restricting ourselves to Cheshire and the edges of the Peak District, closest to our home. The … Continue reading Shining Tor, Cat’s Tor, Errwood Hall
In January I enrolled on Trail magazine's Everest Anywhere challenge. The aim of the challenge is to hike the equivalent height of Everest in 2020. Everest is 8848 metres tall. This week on our Shutlingsloe hike me and my human completed the challenge. Our aim is to hike 3 Everests this year but, the lockdown … Continue reading Everest Anywhere 2020
Hi people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here again. It has been three months since we returned from Scotland after we had completed the Great Glen Way. Since then we haven’t attempted a hill walk except for a couple of local hikes up relatively low hills. With the lockdown restrictions being relaxed recently we decided … Continue reading Shutlingsloe, Three Shires Head and Cat and Fiddle
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here again. It was a midweek evening and I was starting to stare at my human. Six o’clock marks the time that I get restless because I know that is the time of my evening walk. The big feller said that he was restless too and fancied an … Continue reading Eddisbury Hill and Old Pale
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. I am sat on the couch next to my human while I am chewing a Yak Stick and he is dunking his digestives into his coffee. My human dad had settled down to watch an old black and white Western movie on TCM. Suddenly, he says … Continue reading Raw Head and Bulkeley Hill
Today my blog reached another milestone. It has received 20,000 views since we began to write it at the end of October 2019. As I am a Cocker Spaniel I realise that I could not have done this without a little help from my friends. My human dad helps me by doing the typing and … Continue reading 20,000 views
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on an afternoon hike around the village of Lymm in Cheshire. Due to Covid-19 restrictions we are still hiking locally. We decided that we would walk some of the Lymm Heritage Trail and to wander off it when the mood suited. Lymm is a pretty … Continue reading Lymm Village
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after me and my human have just returned from a short local hike around the village of Moore in Cheshire. Moore is situated between Runcorn and Warrington and is currently a stand-alone village. Runcorn is expanding and it looks apparent that Moore will become engulfed in … Continue reading Moore Village
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a sunny Sunday morning, hiking around some of Cheshire’s beautiful countryside. I had paid a visit to the groomers a few days before and I was looking sleek and athletic, ha! It felt so much better than my lockdown fur coat in this hot, … Continue reading Vale Royal Abbey, Whitegate and Meadowbank
Joe the Cocker's Hikes 