Joe's adventures on the trail. Backpacking, hiking, road trips, and town walks with my human dad.
Hiking and backpacking in Cheshire
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a stroll around Frodsham Marshes. As you will appreciate, because I am a dog, I cannot drive a car or read a map, I rely on my human PA for that kind of thing. He has his uses, he bags my poop and throws … Continue reading Frodsham Marshes
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
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
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 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
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after me and my human dad completed a hike with a difference. It was different for us anyway. We decided to take advantage of the relatively empty Chester city centre streets. As some of the restrictions, due to Covid-19, had been lifted we could drive the … Continue reading Chester City
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a sunny afternoon local bimble. I love that word, bimble, bimble, bimble! Sorry, I’ll start again. We went for a short drive to Weaverham, Cheshire. There aren’t any hills in the area but, there is some pretty countryside and a couple of nice villages … Continue reading Weaverham and Hartford
Joe the Cocker's Hikes 