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 reporting on a local trail that me and my human hiked over two days. It is called the Mersey Timberland Trail and not to be confused with the Mersey Way that we recently completed. The trail is 22 miles long starting in Runcorn and ending in … Continue reading Mersey Valley Timberland Trail
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here to tell you about some of the places that we have visited lately in our local town of Runcorn in Cheshire. This is the second instalment of our Runcorn Woodland walks. Rather than report about one single walk, this blog is about a variety of walks … Continue reading Runcorn Woodland – part 2
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here, with my Personal Assistant, after we had completed a local mid-distance hike. We walked the Mersey Way together, not in one session but, in sections. It is a twenty two mile, waymarked trail from Rixton, near Warrington to Garston, a suburb of Liverpool. We have walked … Continue reading The Mersey Way – full route
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting about a rural Runcorn hike. Yes, you read it correctly, a hike of over six miles in Runcorn in the countryside. It was a grey overcast day in July 2020, and it had rained for a few days prior to our walk. This meant that … Continue reading Rural Runcorn
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. A few days ago, me and my human went for one of our regular walks around Runcorn. While we were walking around our local streets, my dad kept stopping to take photographs. I stop quite frequently but, that is usually for a pee. He was having … Continue reading Another Runcorn Walk
We found this on page 28 of August 2020 Country Walking magazine. Joe wanted to share it with you 🐾🐾👍 Page 28 Country Walking magazine August 2020
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here again. My human decided to take us off to the Peak District for a hike in the hills. The weather forecast was in our favour, with mild temperatures and mostly dry, just an afternoon shower around 2PM. Our route would take us to Lud’s Church, The Roaches … Continue reading The Roaches, Lud’s Church and Hen Cloud
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on a short local walk. It was a blustery Sunday afternoon in June, and we had already been caught out by a downpour in the morning, so my human suddenly said ‘shall we go for a walk, Monkey’. I wish that he wouldn’t call me … Continue reading A Runcorn walk – Meandering and Mysteries
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
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
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