Joe's adventures on the trail. Backpacking, hiking, road trips, and town walks with my human dad.
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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. How did you get on? Let us know your thoughts. 1 This is the official starting point in Fort William 2 The Corpach Wreck can be seen on the shore of Loch Linnhe in the village of Caol. The MV Dayspring has been on this spot … Continue reading Great Glen Way Quiz – The answers
We hope that you enjoyed having a go at our pictorial quiz. Currently, the person with the most correct answers is Jim Wright with 14 out of 15, on the West Highland Way group on Facebook. We walked alongside this loch. It is called Craigallian Loch and can be found a few miles from Milngavie. … Continue reading West Highland Way Quiz – The Answers
Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here with a little quiz for everyone who is suffering withdrawal symptoms from hiking trails. I walked the West Highland Way in October 2019 with my human. He took lots of photographs on the way and we wondered if anyone would recognise the locations of some of them. … Continue reading West Highland Way Quiz
Day 7 - Creag Dhearg to Inverness Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here reporting on day 7 of our Great Glen Way hike. We had a good sleep overnight in the protection of the trees in our tent. The wind had been gusting in the pines but, our tent was well sheltered. … Continue reading Great Glen Way – day 7 – 15/3/20
Day 6 - Drumnadrochit to Creag Dhearg Hello people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here again reporting on day 6 of our Great Glen Way hike. We had spent the previous night in the comfort of the Bridge Suite in Invermoriston after being brought back from Drumnadrochit by Tom and Pat, the owners. The plan … Continue reading Great Glen Way – day 6 – 14/3/20
Day 5 - Invermoriston to Dumnadrochit Hello people and pooches. It’s Joe the Cocker here again reporting on day 5 of our Great Glen Way hike. After the zero day on day 4 of our trip it was time to make some headway into our trip. We had slept like proverbial logs during the night … Continue reading Great Glen Way – day 5 – 13/3/20
Day 4 - Fort Augustus to Invermoriston ?! Hello again people and pooches. Joe the Cocker here again reporting on day 4 of our Great Glen Way hike. We were camping in Fort Augustus at the Loch Ness Highland Resort campsite. Unbelievably, we were the only visitors to the site. All the lodges were empty … Continue reading Great Glen Way – day 4 – 12/3/20
Day 3 - Laggan Locks to Fort Augustus Hello people and pooches. It’s Joe the Cocker again reporting on day 3 of our Great Glen Way hike. We both had a reasonable sleep overnight despite of the sound of the wind rushing across Loch Lochy and through the pines. We had been protected from the … Continue reading Great Glen Way – day 3 – 11/3/20
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