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 reporting on another local walk from our front door. Norton used to be a stand-alone village three miles from Runcorn. In the 1960’s Runcorn became a ‘new town’ and Norton village became engulfed in the rapid expansion of the town. Due to the distance from our house … Continue reading Norton Priory
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on another local walk while the country is still in lockdown. We are fortunate that there are a few different types of hike from our doorstep that we can do within an hour. We live in an industrial town so, the country hikes have gone … Continue reading West Bank
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a local during the Coronavirus restrictions. Because we can’t go on long countryside hikes, at the moment, we have had to adapt. My dad takes me out for a walk every morning so that he can exercise and not become a couch potato and even … Continue reading Halton Village
Hi people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on one of our recent ‘Boris’ walks. We are pretty much limited in the type of walk we can do at the moment. Trying to find somewhere interesting and inspiring when walking from our house in the current lockdown conditions is difficult, to say the least. … Continue reading Wigg Island
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a hike that me and my ‘hudad’ did on 29th September 2018, well before I started to write a blog. My dad keeps the photographs that he takes while we are hiking. He said that between us we should be able to remember the events … Continue reading Llyn Parc and Coed Gwydir
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a hike that we did way back in October 2018. My human dad had only recently started to take me out into the big hills and he decided to take me to Snowdonia to one of his favourite mountains. He chose a fairly straightforward route … Continue reading Moel Siabod
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a local hike that me and my dad took the day before the coronavirus restrictions were put in place. We walked from our door so that we could get some exercise and to investigate our local area while the sun was shining. We had arrived … Continue reading Runcorn – a local walk
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a hike that I took with my dad in February 2019. We didn’t write blogs way back then but, my dad has lots of photographs from our hikes and a sketchy memory. On this day we took a drive to Llangollen to hike to Castell … Continue reading Creigiau Eglwyseg & Castell Dinas Bran – 6/2/19
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on our latest adventure. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions being in place we decided to have an adventure on our doorstep. Literally, on our doorstep. This was the first hike that we had done without driving to somewhere, usually hundreds of miles away. This was … Continue reading Our Gate Adventure
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