5000 Mile American Roadtrip Car Camping Adventure: Sierra Nevada, Yellowstone, Red Deserts of Utah
I am Revealing My American story in the Ultimate Road Trip Camping Adventure Movie through the American West. From Freezing Cold, Snow & Thunder Storm to sweltering desert heat. Death Valley, The Sierra Nevada, Monument Valley, Yellowstone, Mt Whitney, Overlanding Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Las Vegas, Nevada, the Great Plains. All the scenic highways, like the Beartooth HW, HW 12 & the Burr Trail. 5000 miles of travel through the wild west as I rediscover my love for my second home. An incredible Journey through desert and prairie. Wild Camping, Car Camping, Stealth Camping the National Parks, Mountains and Desert. I also need to visit Matt’s Off-Road Recovery, why?
This is a very very long movie.
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About me: I am a Norwegian adventurer and wilderness explorer. My youtube channel focus on outdoor wilderness adventures and exploration, backpacking, hiking, canyoneering, skiing, climbing and mountaineering. Nights spent in a tent, alone or with friends. From the snow covered mountains and misty fjords of Norway and Scandinavia to the remote plateaus of Yellowstone and the debts of the red canyons of Utah to the summit of Mt Whitney and the heart of Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park. I love the Wilderness! Email is under “For business inquiries”, for general questions please comment on a video, I try to answer everyone.
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00:00 Epic Intro
02:30 Travel from Norway to Las Vegas
05:38 Cell service data plan for travelers
07:11 Virgin River Gorge
09:07 Las Vegas
12:48 Real UFOs Extra Terrestrial HW
13:33 Beatty by Death Valley
15:05 113° in Death Valley
21:23 Lone Pine & Alabama Hills
26:28 Horseshoe Meadows
27:34 Sierra Nevada on the PCT
33:07 Intro to my American story
41:26 On the John Muir Trail
46:20 Sunset over the Sierra
47:48 Mt Whitney Summit day
01:10:57 Lone Pine through Death Valley
01:13:27 Matt’s off-road recovery
01:17:30 Arizona Strip
01:24:35 Overlanding Glen Canyon
01:40:11 Hiking Alstrom Point
01:49:57 Sunset at Alstrom Point
01:58:57 Car Camping Glen Canyon
02:03:39 Through Navajo Nation
02:07:34 Monument Valley
02:15:05 Driving Moki Dugway
02:20:54 Overlanding Muley Point
02:23:19 Sunset and thoughts at Muley Point
02:28:22 Escaping thunder storms in the basin
02:30:40 HW 95
02:35:11 My history of Utah hiking
02:37:42 Hite Overlook
02:41:29 Hanksville
02:45:44 Entering Wyoming
02:49:57 Jackson
02:53:47 Grand Teton National Park
02:55:57 First Bison herd
03:00:57 Yellowstone National Park
03:03:29 West Thumb Geyser Basin
03:10:31 Hayden Valley
03:16:39 The most crazy lightning storms I have experienced
03:23:02 Thunder and Lightning
03:28:30 Cody, Wyoming
03:30:22 Bighorn Mountains & Scenic Byway
03:37:12 Snow storms in Yellowstone
03:49:32 Wildlife in Yellowstone
03:50:14 Wolf Pack in Hayden Valley
03:54:40 Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
03:59:46 Across Yellowstone National Park
04:03:13 Lamar Valley
04:08:18 Winter scenery in Yellowstone
04:13:17 Cooke City Montana dinner
04:15:44 Car Camping outside Yellowstone
04:23:37 Chief Joseph Scenic Byway
04:28:02 Back into a Yellowstone dressed after snow storm
04:32:09 Thoughts on National Parks
04:33:38 Bear mom with cub
04:36:44 Grand Prismatic Spring
04:41:30 Grand Prismatic Spring overlook
04:47:16:05 Stealth camping West Yellowstone
04:48:27 Montana
04:51:29 Big Horn Sheep
04:51:52 Thoughts on Music & My Story
04:59:18 Beartooth Highway
05:16:05 Yellowstone one last time
05:17:34 HW 26 Scenic byway
05:20:58 Towards Togwotee Pass
05:24:05 Brooks Lake
05:27:13 Car Camping setup
05:29:00 Cold frozen night car camping
05:30:41 Through Wyoming
05:32:31 Medicine Bow national forest
05:33:39 Utah
05:34:53 Fisher Towers & Colorado River
05:37:06 Moab
05:38:39 Overlanding Factory Butte
05:40:21 Moonscape Overlook
05:45:04 Through Capitol Reef
05:48:58 HW 12 Scenic byway
05:49:42 Larb Hollow overlook, HW 12
05:53:09 The Hogbacks, HW 12
05:57:02 Escalante
05:58:16 Pizza at Escalante Outfitters
05:58:48 HW 12 Scenic byway
06:03:10 Burr Trail
06:14:37 Burr Trail switchbacks
06:17:55 Notom-Bullfrog road
06:24:24 Fruita Campground
06:25:26 Hickman Bridge hike
06:29:39 Hiking, Backpacking & Camping Capitol Reef
06:30:45 Sulfur Creek
06:49:49 Chimney Canyon
06:51:49 Spring Canyon
07:05:07 Bryce Canyon National Park
07:10:20 Final Thoughts & Goodbye America
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Ha! Coffee after a milkshake – my favorite combination. Must be we Scandinavians like that combo.
Muhteşem.
All my coworkers watch your videos and we love them. Your channel is different . You are educating us on all these beautiful places.
I want to ask if you have a significant other in your life and do you have children. If so will they be traveling with you in some videos some day.?
Thank you for all your great videos
Thank you for this amazing video. I love all of your videos, but this one really touched me. I am an American, and this video is inspirational. 🙂
Bonanza Country.
I made a point of watching the entirety of your video. It took me several weeks, but I just finished it today. Thank you for sharing your background about what brought you to America in the first place. I love learning about people's histories, so I really appreciated that. The landscapes you highlight in this video are stunning. If you happen to see this comment while you're up in the Arctic, I would like to know what kind of video camera you used for this video. The image quality is fantastic, and I noticed the camera even panned along with you as you were hiking a few times. Thanks for the great videos!
Very interesting and visually stunning video. I love the mood you create with the scenery, it is meditative to watch with the music in it.
Wow! By far this is my favorite video! Great everything! Had a rough day so spent the day watching this and I sure feel a little better now! It was good to get to know you as well and learn some things! Love these that are several hours long! Thanks for a great trip!
So cool revisiting these areas with your wonderful videos, and without having to go through airport security! I was out there when you were there.
Born and raised in the US of European parents, the question growing up was always, "How will you live? Can you live off that? What will you do for food and shelter!?" LOL. I suppose it depends upon where you are in the US and to whom you were born. But, yes, the western United States is the visual descrption of "freedom" for sure.
You are living a remarkable life. And your YouTube channel is wonderful. Your choice of music, your talent for photography, and your command of the language is amazing. My day is complete when I have viewed a piece of your adventures.
The Norwegian Xplorer: As you drove through Death Valley and the temperature kept climbing I was reminded of the summer here in Gresham, my home town when we had an extreme heat wave. OUR daily temperature hit 116 degrees! This was the outside temperature and our 4th story indoor apartment without AC exceeded this temperature. WE could no longer stay in our unit as it exceeded 120 degrees. WE were so greatful to our church, our pastor who literally allowed us to camp at church in one of the Sabbath school rooms. AS the church had air conditioning. He brought in miniture refridgerators for our food. WE brought sheets/blankets and pillows and slept on the pews and during the day used the free wifi–internet to watch programs on YOUTUBE, played games and read books. WE had several days in a row with high temperatures in the 110's to 116–and so we camped out there for several nights/days. It saved our lives. WE had some 20 people die in our city from heat related illnesses being trapped in hot houses and apartments. It was hot everywhere that summer, in death Valley it was 141 degrees and 121 in Las Vegas!
AS for me, I love the snow and the cold. WE have had temperatures in our City as low as -20 windchill with snow and ice on the ground in the past. But not recently. WE are expecting snow tomorrow! but it might not stay. I love the snow.
I am excited to watch this wonderful long, long video of your travels! Especially if is snows for 2 days! YAY! Hugs and blessings, Michelle Reed, Gresham Oregon USA
Superb this7 hours NX really enjoyed this adventure
Whitney amazing and Burr Trail incredible
It shows how incredible the US is have to go incredible tranquility
Back to blizzards next week ! Dave UK
I just finished watching this truly epic story of your US tour. The photography was amazing and along with your comments and the beautiful music it is probably the best video I have ever watched. Thank you for the hours of editing you put into this and I look forward to watching your Arctic tours. You are a very blessed and talented person.
The two Las Vegas bands that made it, The Killer and Panic at the Disco, I prefer Panic. Well, well, you should have dropped by. You were taking 215 to get to the 95. I got to go up to Beatty. The brothel has a gift shop and that's the only place I found the Green Alien cookie jars for sale, yup, in a Brothel! This was a wonderful video.
I found it fascinating that you come from a music background and when COVID kicked off you found yourself in nature can I ask are we listening to your music in some of your videos it feels like we are some of the soundtracks are amazing
My wife and I really enjoy your channel. It would be great if you could add the dates to your itinerary.
Jarl , Absolutely awesome compilation of your US trip. Stunning video and a great story to go with it.
Again…. Absolutely Incredible !!
Stay Safe My Friend
I recently joined your channel and I'm really happy I did.
Your videos are fantastic. I've watched several of them in Norway, a country I dream of going to. I'm French.
I'm currently watching your video and I'm blown away by the quality of your videos. The American landscapes are magnificent!!
Thank you so much for sharing your travels and adventures with us; it's truly amazing!! 💚💚💛💛
Are you from América or Norwegian ?
Are you from América or Norwegian ?
This is a great video I actually went to Montana for the first time on September 7 and was in the western parts near the Idaho border and lake Pend Orielle went to the river that the Scene from the Revenant was filmed on. I see you brought your reindeer hat to America. Cheers my friend
Thank you, that was a wonderful journey. Again your cinematography, music and overall vibe are second to none.
What a fantastic adventure! It was very cool to know a little bit more about Jarl, the Norwegian Xplorer. I imagine it’s your music we listen with your videos 👍🏻
You drove by the place where young military guy Charles Hall met extraterrestrials he called Tall Whites when he was stationed there. He wrote it all in his books called Millenial Hospitality. There are YouTube videos of his interviews. He is a retired physicist now. I’ve also seen interviews of people who said they played with Tall White children when they were kids near the base.
That was beautiful! I get what you say about the freedom to live your life the way you want to. I live in the Netherlands.. and I suppose the Netherlands is like Norway when it comes to work.. living like people expect you to live. Abide by society's law. I work.. I take care of my elderly mother. Wich I do with love by the way. But I feel life is passing by.. I want to do.. experience so much more before my time is up. Sounds a bit dramatic perhaps. I don't want to sound like that.. but I am hoping that I will get to have the chance to live free. Not to be what society expects me to be. Well.. this was my rant😂. I just discoverd your channel a couple of weeks ago.. and I enjoy it a lot. Almost every night I will watch a blizzard episode😊. You Live your life on you're terms.. I love it. Having said that.. be safe❤
Wow, what an epic video! Managed to watch it in 2 parts!
Too much content to comment on, but the scenery was just magnificent. The rock formations in Utah/Arizona are unbelievable. On camera, one cannot grasp the sheer scale, it is all so vast. Tower Butte rises some 2,600m (5,200ft) and yet it pales in comparison to its surroundings.
Yellowstone, well, what can one say? Simply breathtaking, as was route 90, the road winding through the canyons of rock. The red rock contrasting against the deep blue sky. Sensational
It was nice to learn a little bit more about you, too, and how you ended up as an explorer!
Thank you for taking us on this extraordinary journey with you. Life is short. Embrace the freedom to choose how you wish to live it and above all, do what makes you happy and brings warmth to your heart.
Stay safe, my friend.
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I think you did the perfect thing in driving out of the gravel road that night in case it flooded. Better to be safe than sorry.
Great video…I've done that trip and plan on doing a version of it again next year. Closer to my neck of the woods, Crater Lake is recommended. 👍🏽
Need to split the video into seven 1-hour parts: part 1, part 2, etc. Hard to do searches for scenes on long ones.
58:00 Mind-blowing beautiful right here. Someday!
Oh cool, glad you made a video to explain your American history. Just starting to watch this, am very interested so far. I played in bands throughout the 80s and 90’s, partied pretty hard. (We opened for Kix and I have music on Soundcloud). but now I work as Democratic activist. It will probably take me a while to watch this, we have important election coming up here soon in Virginia. Hope all is well with you my friend. ✌️
That car he’s in has an electric short ! The back interior light shouldn’t be on, unless he’s left the interior light on? I will mention I’m ocd about that kinda stuff!
Whoa! How did I miss this one, Jarl? 10 months ago? 😏Haven’t been to the northwest as yet. NE SE SW Midwest, yes. Best tourism advert I’ve seen. Spectacular photography!! 👏👏 I chuckled when I saw the clips of Yellowstone mountains. The lightbulb came on when I realized where the name came from. Never occurred to me. 😌 Have finished the video yet – half way through. Can’t wait to get back to it.
Almost done watching this epic segment! Great observations, beautiful observation points and true adventure with a true friend, it really would be hard without that. Thank you for capturing it all so vividly and keep on truckin'!
Oh wow!, what a beautiful sight. Thanks for another wow video❤❤❤absolutely incredibly beautifull 😍 ❤️ ♥️ 💕
All I see are mountain lions and snakes 🫣
Do I recognize your 🎶 on "I remember…ded 🐭🐁" ??….. And later sampled on "Antarctica", ironically?
Jarl, this was a joy to watch. It brings back memories of my trip to many of these places. Your hikes were absolutely amazing especially the one with Jamal. The scenery was breathtaking and your photography made me feel like I was right there. Just a stunning wonderful, breathtaking tour. Thanks for sharing❤
Good morning/afternoon/evening, Norwegian Xplorer!! Thanks so very much for showing us that magnificent & dangerous area of your U.S. trip, you did very well at climbing higher & higher!! What spectacular views of the vast terrain, for sure!! Congrats for making it to the highest point!! Question: are you alone or is there a crew with you? Thanks again, Norwegian Xplorer, your videos are fantastic, thanks very much for taking us along to places that are out of reach for some of us!! Cheers & stay safe!! ❤❤😊😊