Joe's adventures on the trail. Backpacking, hiking, road trips, and town walks with my human dad.
Hiking and backpacking blog
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. Me and my human have been walking around our hometown a lot more frequently since the Coronavirus restrictions were introduced. We have written three blogs about Runcorn’s woodland areas and this is our fourth instalment. We didn’t hike this collection of woodlands as a circular walk … Continue reading Runcorn Woodland – part 4
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. Me and my human have been for another flat walk. My dad’s knee injury is limiting us in where we can hike so, the world seems to have become quite flat. He can walk for hours, providing that the surface is flat. Hills and mountains will have … Continue reading Pontcysyllte to Llangollen
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. Me and my human went for another short and flat walk yesterday. Short and flat because of his iffy knee. He said that it was improving but, not ready for anything strenuous. I think that he is just getting lazy. We had completed our target mileage … Continue reading Pennington Flash
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here to tell you about a milestone that I reached with my human. On 23rd September we completed 2020 miles in 2020. I pledged on the 6th December 2019 that I would walk 2000 miles this year in the Country Walking Magazine 2020 challenge. Well, I did … Continue reading 2020 miles in 2020
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here to, tell you about a short wobble into the countryside. I say wobble because, that is what my human was doing. Wobbling with a ‘gammy’ knee. He is such a baby at times. Did I limp or make a fuss when my tail was bandaged? No, … Continue reading White Nancy and Kerridge Hill
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here to tell you about our recent mini adventure. The weather forecast was good for a few days so we thought that we would take advantage of it and nip to West Wales for a couple of days. Sunshine, light winds, no rain were all the positives. … Continue reading Mawddach Trail
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here, getting my human to do a bit of typing for me. Yesterday we completed a hike in Merseyside, in an area that we were unfamiliar with. We wanted to stay fairly local again and to not walk up too many strenuous hills. Strenuous, that is, for … Continue reading Billinge Hill and Crank Caverns
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. Me and my human have spent a lot of hours pounding the streets of Runcorn through the lockdown. We have also been checking out Runcorn’s woodland areas. I don’t know what percentage of the town is covered by trees but, if you look over the Mersey … Continue reading Runcorn Woodland – part 3
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on an area that is relatively local to us, that we haven’t visited before. Thank you to Dill the Springer on Facebook for highlighting the area for us. We wanted to do a short walk of about 3 hours, so that the big feller could … Continue reading Collier’s Moss circuit
Hello again people and pooches. Jo the Cocker here. We woke up to sunny skies on an August Bank Holiday Monday. We weren’t planning to do a hike but, the weather was calling us to the countryside. We are not one’s for heading where the crowds are so my human had a quick look on … Continue reading Bold Loop
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