Joe's adventures on the trail. Backpacking, hiking, road trips, and town walks with my human dad.
Hiking and backpacking blog
Hi people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting about a hike that I did with my human dad last winter. My human always seems to drag me into the hills when the weather is iffy. On this occasion, it was blowing a hooley. Forty miles per hour winds with 60 mph gusts. It was … Continue reading Cregennan Lakes or Llynnau Cregennan
A road trip around the Northern Scottish coast All set! Where are we going to, dad? Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after a long gap in writing my blogs. I have just completed a trip with my human where we drove a lot and hiked a lot. While my human drove the … Continue reading North Coast 500
Kilimanjaro by the Machame Route WRITTEN ABOUT PRE JOE THE COCKER DAYS Twenty years have passed by since I challenged myself to climb Kilimanjaro and some of my recollections have become foggy with time. I was 45 years old at the time and felt like I needed a challenge. A few years previous I had … Continue reading Pole! Pole! Kilimanjaro
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. Me and my human personal assistant have just returned from our New Year's Eve walk. We were going to hike to the summit of Moel Famau for the midnight celebrations, but after researching it we discovered that some people set off fireworks as the new year … Continue reading Pistyll Rhaeadr
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after a wet one! We woke up to a wet and windy morning between Christmas and New Year. The plan was to drive to Llanberis and to walk around Llyn Padarn and to photograph the Lonely Tree on the bank of the lake. We had an … Continue reading Moel y Faen and Moel y Gamelin
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here after a post Christmas short walk. We regularly walk alongside the Afon Clywedog in North East Wales, so we thought that we would tell you about it. We were both looking forward to seeing the river in spate. There had been plenty of wet weather lately, … Continue reading Afon Clywedog
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. On Sunday we decided to join the Walking for Pleasure Christmas Walk organised by Max Wieko. We have never hiked in a group before, so this was a new experience for us. My human is too anti-social and miserable to walk with other humans. Me, on … Continue reading Christmas Group Hike
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. The previous two days had been dominated by Storm Arwen. Devastation and cold temperatures were the orders of the day. We awoke on Sunday morning to cold but still conditions. So, after a quick breakfast, I gave my human the look! The look that says 'are … Continue reading Esclusham Mountain
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. I recently managed to drag my human off the couch for a walk into the nearby hills. There is a narrow and undulating unnamed road leading from Minera and skirting Esclusham Mountain, in North East Wales, then onto Ruabon Moors. The road takes you through a … Continue reading World’s End
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. I don't know why I introduce myself every time I posy a blog. You already know that it's me. Anyway, me and my human have just been on a walk in the grounds of a castle. Chirk Castle or Castell y Waun, to be precise, in … Continue reading Chirk Castle Woodland
Joe the Cocker's Hikes 