The Grand Escalante Loop | Thru-Hiking 33 Days in Southern Utah 

I cannot think of a better ambassador for southern Utah than Jamal Green. June 1st needs to be declared Jamal Green day in Utah!

Southern Iowa = crawdaddy. Minnesota = crayfish. Thank you for sharing your adventures!

What a year to be out in that gorgeous Utah country... flowers, wildlife AND SNOW!! Like others, I'm anxiously waiting for the daily detailed versions. Thank you for the tremendous efforts you put in to making and sharing these videos with us!

Once again you take us along on another epic hike, The Grand Escalante Loop. Thank you for capturing the absolute beauty from the canyons, rivers to the snowy mountains tops!

That is some gorgeously exquisite o gosh I have no adjectives for the beauty of this land. This Michigander is in awe of the western United States 🇺🇸

Yay, another 33 videos by Jamal to view and thoroughly enjoy!

Yay Jamal is back!

Lots of variety in your over-view video. Now I'm even more anxious to see your extended version on video.

Whoo hoo!!! Here we go!!!!!

If its any consolation, I whistle your intro tune while starting every episode. Party on Jamal, and safe trails!

I so much appreciate the quality of your videography along with your accompanying narrative! I've been waiting all summer for your next hiking vlog!

Jamal! This has to be your Escalante masterpiece! Your Grand Escalante Loop is a brilliant route, stringing together many of my favorite places and others that I have yet to visit. I'm grateful that a friend had alerted me that your compilation video is up. We were both flying high as a kite last night after watching this. I can't wait to see your individual episodes! Thank you so much for the work you've done on these beautiful vids.

Another amazing hike Jamal with spectacular views and professional presentation. I.always enjoy watching them!!

This is getting me excited for the extended version!

Jamal, I was going through withdrawals not seeing any new vids. I actually started re-watching your Zion to Green River series again this afternoon...lol. Thank you!!

Hearing that familiar Across Utah soundtrack, then watching the spectacular scenery unfold, I admit I got goosebumps! Thank you Jamal for sharing your adventures with us. I can't wait for the extended version!

Yeah! Been checking in to see when we could enjoy another adventure with you in Utah!

Glad to see ya back!!!! Can't wait for the daily videos! Thanks for sharing I love it.😊

OUTSTANDING ! Thank you Jamal, can't wait to view the dailys

Awesome Awesome Awesome video thanks for another incredible video every year in May I go to Escalante to go hiking with friends hopefully one day we can cross paths thank you again for these incredible videos that you share with us greetings to mister shadow

Endless praise to your struggle and sacrifice to inform us citizens of the incredible beauty you hike thru. Endless praise to you. Subscriber for life, and I watch all your videos, sometimes multiple times. TIP to viewers, bump your viewing up to 2160p 4K, to enjoy this terrain to the utmost. Incredible editing of your 360 camera to the floating views you edit them into. 16:00 re "stuck in the domes" does that refer to the terrain is so similar, it becomes disorienting? So much of the same up and downing over domes, which seem to go on for so far, that when one's in the troughs, that it becomes disorienting as to overall progress? I ask re the domes, because in Arizona, between Phoenix and Tucson, there's a stretch of up and down hills that stretch out in a patch, and hiking then through that patch of ups and downs, hills like tiny mountains, once in the thick of the whole stretch of them, it becomes disorienting and long ago meaning early 1900s or earlier, it could be deadly getting "lost" in them. (When I saw this patch in Arizona the first time, I wanted to just hike straight across it, but i was warned it messes with your head, you get lost, due to the similarity of the ups and downs and so many small hills so similar, and I never tried it.) 34:43 super excellent timing to catch the tadpoles turning into their frog/toad stage of development, in the huge size just about frog/toads. Hikers who hike a LOT, over their lives see tadpoles and then toads/frogs, but that final huge tadpole almost frog stage is special, so excellent catch.

🙆 Aaaah finally... when I seen you had a new post I was super excited and decided to watch via Big Screen! I do believe I see a new pack! Woohoo! The blooming flowers are so colorful. Actually love seeing those desert storms, you never know what you're going to get rain, hale, and possibly snow. Your route this year seems so amazing! I am liking this "overview video". But... the anticipation... for the in-debt vlogs!

Woot woot! Jamal is back! What a difference a year makes! From desolate desert to wildflower paradise. Amazing hike in our most favorite part of Utah. How's the new gear? (Pack and tent (?)). Looking forward to watching the daily vlog. Thank you for all your hard work making this. ❤

Always a pleasure to watch your videos! Thank u(tah)

Jamal, you're my hero. I hope to be as skilled as you one day so I can do the same hikes across that beautiful state.

This one’s my favorite. Just can’t beat GSENM. You definitely got it’s greatest hits. We were doing a 4 day Davis/Fiftymile loop in mid May, one of these days I wouldn’t be surprised if we cross paths!

Yes! Waited all summer for this!

Thanks!

Another great installment; always a good day when an Across Utah! vid drops. Looking forward to the daily editions! (You got a new backpack! And a Granite Gear to boot!)

Another gift, seeing Utah at its unique best. Camera techniques are masterful. Artistry throughout. World class.

Hot damn! Been so looking forward to seeing what you've been up to.

Always great to see your videos . I’ve watched every video and I have to say this one is epic very beautiful ❤thx

What a fantastic spring for water, wildflowers and wildlife in Utah. This video is just what this nation needs right now. Did you encounter many other people in the back country this year?

Awesome hike! Thank you for all the work you put into these videos! I love them and have fallen in love with the Colorado plateau!

Just wanted to chip in how awesome your video series are. Definitely psyched to see the day-by-day videos as they come out!

Loved this loop you did this spring! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome trip. Looking forward to the vlog.

Another "one of a kind" video... typical Jamal-Style, great footage, brilliant editing... and I love your music selection. Big hug from Germany and thanx for taking me along once again 🥰😎

I am so glad your videos are back! GSENM is the most beautiful part of the world to me and I am so excited to watch this hike

Another wonderful hike Jamal, such an amazing area i visited in 2003. Enjoyed a hearty breakfast in Escalante before travelling down the hole in the rock road.

Thank you Jamal!

That was really good. The landscapes and the filming of them were brilliant. Utah just keeps on giving - there were yet more landforms I've never seen that leave me wondering "how?" The wildlife was interesting, and the desert in bloom was stunning. Parts of that hike looked very taxing (with or without the wind, rain, hail, snow drifts and insects) and of course you must have done some bits 2 or 3 times to set up the camera, film it and then collect the camera - your effort is very much appreciated and the results are great. Now I'm looking forward to the daily stories: seeing the summary first has whetted my appetite!

Thanks for sharing, I wish I was there with you on that hike, what an adventure.

What a scenery, what a professional presentation bud! This looks simply spectacular!

Epic hike. It was very exciting to see episode after episode but to have highlights in one , is like winning lottery. ❤Thank you Jamal for your tremendous work. You took me to the places I never dreamed off. The scenery has a beauty hard to describe.

It's always great to see you going on and off the trails. Lots of love and respect from a solo mountain hiker friend from the Hindu Kush Mountains Lower Chitral District of Pakistan.

Excellent!!

your photography and editing has improved so much! wow! 😀

Woohoo.looking forward to your uploads of my fav part of utah gsenm

This one is awesome.

This makes me happy! Yay Jamal!

Great to see ya!!! Wow and wow!!! The flowers were just amazing! The light beautiful! Can't wait to view the detailed version Another great adventure. Thanks for taking us along. ❤

Excellent as usual. Thank you for posting!

Excellent compilation with some great videography.

Getting my popcorn and settling in to watch!

Thank you for putting together this extraordinary preview! Love that the super bloom coincided with your adventure, such breathtaking beauty! 🤩 “Off the beaten path” - no one does it better than Jamal! Can’t wait to see the extended breakdown of episodes! Cheers✌️

YES... that is so beautiful, and such great 360 work. You've really figured it out, especially the editing. Thank you Jamal, this is great and i can't wait for the day by day versions. Maybe next year those extra batteries will assist.. Thank you so much.. Jim

we were hiking Mail Trail and Escalante river in May as well. Flowers were fantastic this year.

Been waiting for this!

Excited to see the series! Looks like a phenomenal year to be in the desert. I had the good luck to be able to hike the Grandview trail in Grand Canyon this year - I can see why are you addicted to the desert!

The domes, yeah I remember those, caught me by surprise, going up to Cliff lol! Love it Jamal!

good stuff/ we jumped around a little for this one, we want to see the day by day full versions and dont want to spoil too much but had to see some of it at least....

welcome back ‘bro - and vice versa

Great idea to do this loop. Love the choices you made as far as what route to take to complete it. Thanks for sharing.

Great stuff Jamal! Looking forward to the vlogs! I was looking forward to this seasons hike and you never disappoint. I'm hoping to get out there in April 2024. I just missed you in Escalante in 2022, I think.

I've never seen that part of Utah so green with all the wildflowers and cacti blooming. Amazing and beautiful. Some of those ridge walks were really impressive.

Aayyyyy! A new Jamal green video. Always gets me excited.

Another, well, *amazing* journey. Looking forward to the more detailed videos, and especially the navigation discussions. Coming from a lifetime of backpacking in the mountains, I've found (in the few times I've tried) desert navigation to be something of a mystery. Lacking the experience with the terrain, it all kind of looks the same to me, even though I know it's not. So it'll be good to get some tips from you!

Hello again, love your hikes and videos and hope i can come back to Escalante one day

Wow! That was an awesome adventure in one of the most beautiful of places. I can only dream of doing that as I am an old lady with a bum knee and bad hip. I can do little bits of hikes but not more than 5 miles or so. So thanks for showing us these wonderful places. Do you have any vids showing how you do your videos? Very nice work and editing.

Oh man...I can't wait for the daily vlog. How you got Kelsey'ed, how many bloons you found, how awesome were those Duke's smoked sausages, etc. 😜

So exciting to see a video up by you, Jamal! I saved this to watch for a treadmill workout, so a few days late watching it. Amazing, and I need to know where those fields of yellow sego/mariposa lilies are 😍; I'm going to go have a detailed look at the map on your site! I've never seen the yellow ones before, but the pinkies (Winding Sego (Calochortus flexuosus) were in full force over along Hwy 95 in the Glen Canyon NRA in early May when we went during a car camping trip. The heavy snow winter brings out fields of them, and it's breathtaking! The wildflowers this year in general were off the charts amazing. Anyway, this was a neat hike format for you, a loop hike! Certainly makes travel logistics a lot easier. What fantastic and varied scenery, with all the money shots of slot canyons, water, wildlife, and lots of sweeping views and sunset skies to take in over the month. I'm hoping to take off for a car camping trip to Escalante at the end of the week, so this is giving me even more inspiration to head out over there 😃. I'll be looking forward to the daily vlog version as the videos come up - last years' trip got me through a lot of treadmill workouts, and it was fantastic. Glad to see you had no food/water/equipment mishaps. Hope the rest of your summer went well, and you're enjoying these cooler days of fall. Cheers, Sonya

You did a great trip. 💯

So good to see you back. I love your videos. One question I have not asked over the years -- do you take precautions to not get a urinary infection from wading through the runoff water? I ask because I just had one and had to be on strong antibiotics. Remember that GoPro is still waiting for your pickup in that pond where you lost it last year near Green River.😃

There's a route off the top of the Fold...head south like you did but after about a half hour you'll get to a saddle, make a right and poke you way down the domes and cracks. It's kinda tricky but it goes. One spot is unavoidable where most people need a landline of about 50 feet. It dumps you out into the upper basin of Stevens. From the top of the Fold you can actually see where you'll hit the canyon. The route you took is the old trail thru the domes...and as you found out, that's tricky in and of itself. Long walk to get there, too. I know that area like the back of my hand...don't even need a map anymore. You did a fine job.

Fantastic well planned trip -- a classic. How was finding water on the mesas?

Another great video! The description mentions a map of the route on your website. Where exactly would that be? Didn't see it either in the main map or the blog posts about this hike. Cheers!

41:48 It wouldn't be a "Genuine Jamal Hike" without a shout-out to Molly's Nipple! 😃

Very nice! What a trip! Did you stay the night in a hotel after that?

Hey Mr. Shadow! Tell me about taking care of your feet, socks and shoes sloshing through all the water.

Great video. Thx for sharing. I went and looked at your detailed loop route as I am trying to design a 4-6 day loop hike in the Escalante area for me and several friends this Fall (late Aug / early Sept). I design all my hikes on Gaia GPS and when I try to use your hike at a template to create something, there doesn't appear to be enough trails to go beyond several days. With Gaia GPS printed maps and the app on my phone, we don't mind some off trail hiking, and, ideally, we are looking for something that doesn't require permits, extensive slot canyon hiking, or having to carry 15 pounds of water everyday. Do you have any suggestion for a 4-6 day loop hike in that area. Maybe we will need a 2nd vehicle? Thx in advance.

Curious what your average pack weight was on this trip?