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 here. On the edge of our borough is the village of Cronton. It used to be a Lancashire village but nowadays it comes under the control of Knowsley in Merseyside. The weather was nice for mid March and the big feller asked me if I wanted to … Continue reading A walk around Cronton’s Listed Buildings
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here with Hopalong. My human has finally had his knee injury checked out by a doctor, instead of relying on YouTube videos. He has a meniscus tear in his left knee so, distance and hillwalking are out for a while. It’s local short walks until it either … Continue reading Stadt Moers
Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here. We have been limited in how, when and where we can hike lately. We are currently in a Tier 3 Covid zone and this is dictating where we can travel to. My human has a knee injury that limits the distance that we can walk, and … Continue reading Ainsdale Coastal Walk
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, 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 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
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 after a sweaty (for the big feller) walk from The Ship Inn, Blackbrook, St. Helens along the remains of the St. Helens or Sankey Canal, to Carr Mill Dam. We walked this route on a humid and warm Saturday morning in August. It had been a … Continue reading Stanley Bank and Carr Mill Dam
Hi people. Joe the Cocker here again. On a glorious winter’s morning like this we just had to be outdoors. Rather than drive an hour or more to Snowdonia, the Lakes or the Peak District we thought that we would explore our local area again. A hike along one of the more scenic parts of … Continue reading Mersey Way & Hale Lighthouse
Joe the Cocker's Hikes 