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Utah’s Premier Guiding Service | Since 1993
Utah’s Professional Mountain Guides Since 1993
Utah Mountain Adventures (UMA) is the premier full-spectrum, year-round mountain guiding service in Utah. UMA guides are your experts in backcountry skiing, splitboarding, rock climbing, ice climbing, avalanche instruction, summer and winter mountaineering, hiking, snowshoeing and canyoneering training. A direct descendant of the oldest guide service in the US — Exum Mountain Guides — Utah Mountain Adventures’ 30-year heritage in the Wasatch Range alone sets us apart from any other guide service in Utah.
UMA holds a year-round special-use permit on the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache Forest and several other seasonal USFS permits for guiding outside the Central Wasatch. We also maintain relationships and insurance for private and other lands where we guide. UMA is an American Avalanche Association-endorsed course provider of recreational avalanche courses (Avalanche Fundamentals / Awareness, Level 1, Rescue and Level 2).
Top Upcoming Courses
Wasatch Mavens – Women’s Backcountry Mentorship Series
Wasatch Mavens – Women’s Backcountry Mentorship Series
Toledo Peak Alpine Climb
Toledo Peak Alpine Climb
Splitboard Efficiency (2-Day)
Splitboard Efficiency (2-Day)
Introduction to Backcountry Skiing & Splitboarding
Introduction to Backcountry Skiing & Splitboarding
Ice Climbing Camp (2-Day)
Ice Climbing Camp (2-Day)
Backcountry Mentorship Series
Backcountry Mentorship Series
Customize Your Adventure: Book A Private Guiding Trip
Private, or custom, guiding means you have a guide dedicated solely to you or your group, rather than being part of a class or clinic that is open to other guests. We love creating custom trips tailored to your specific goals, needs and timeframe. Our outstanding guides and instructors are available daily to lead private tours and climbs.
Personalized coaching accelerates learning and helps elevate mountain athletes to the limit of their abilities. UMA’s professional instructors help our guests progress in all aspects of rock and ice climbing, summer and ski mountaineering, backcountry skiing and splitboarding, expedition prep, canyoneering training, hiking, backpacking and snowshoeing. Progress on your own terms by hiring a private guide!
Reach New Heights with Utah Mountain Adventures
Utah’s Best Mountain Guides
Our guides are our chosen family. UMA retains over 25 mountain professionals with a broad range of experience. UMA guides are hired for their demonstrated high achievement in the greater ranges of the world and possess a passion for sharing their skills and love of adventure with our guests.
Our guides are uniquely qualified both by formal training and extensive experience climbing, skiing, traveling and guiding in Utah and around the world. UMA guides have progressed climbers and skiers in the Wasatch to summit the Grand Teton, the Grand Traverse, Mt. Whitney, Denali, the Haute Route in the Alps, Mt. Elbrus, Island Peak and multiple 8,000-meter peaks in the Himalaya.
Featured Guide
Alan Rousseau
Alan has been an IFMGA certified guide since 2016. He has been on over 30 expeditions since he started guiding in 2008. Helping people progress their mountain skill set has kept Alan deeply engaged in guiding. In addition to his work in Utah he has guided big technical objectives around the world, and instructs training/certifying guides for the American Mountain Guide Association. Alan also spends a lot of time pursuing personal climbing goals in the Himalayas and Alaska Range. He has twice been awarded the ‘Piolet D’or’ which annually recognizes ‘outstanding achievement in the world of alpinism’. Once in 2020 for a new route on Tengi Ragi Tau in Nepal and again in 2024 for the first Alpine style ascent of Jannu’s North face. In Alaska he has established some very challenging routes and has repeated a couple of the AK range’s and most committing objectives in continuous pushes.
Whatever your climbing or skiing goals are, Alan is happy to work with you and help accelerate your learning in the mountains.
Featured Guide
Billy Haas
Billy Haas is a passionate skier, climber, and mountain guide based out of the Wasatch Mountains. Born and raised in New York state, Billy stoked his fire for skiing and climbing on the rolling mountains of the North East. After graduating from Hamilton College, Billy moved out to Utah to further his passion for mountain endeavors.
Now an IFMGA mountain guide, Avalanche Forecaster, and Pro Instructor; Billy loves to share his excitement for the mountains with his clients and students. A skier first and foremost, when not teaching or guiding Billy can be found chasing the next great ski line somewhere around the world. When not traveling to ski, he is often digging deep into his local ranges of the Wasatch and Tetons mountain, places he considers his training grounds for the great ranges of the world.
Accomplishments:
With a variety of strong partners, Billy has been fortunate to have made numerous notable ski descents, many of which were new and unexplored, all over the Western USA, Alaska, Canada, the Andes, New Zealand, and Pakistan.
Featured Guide
Allison Conover
Originally from Ohio, Allison Conover has been calling the Wasatch home since 2003—where her love for deep snow, wild places, and people all found a common trail. With boundless enthusiasm and an infectious laugh, Allison has been guiding with Utah Mountain Adventures since 2009, sharing her expertise and joy for backcountry skiing with everyone from first-timers to seasoned mountaineers.
Allison’s passion for helping others extends far beyond the skin track. Over the years, she has worked as an instructor for at-risk teenagers and as a parent coordinator for troubled teens, roles that reflect her deep empathy and ability to connect with people from all walks of life. In 2017, her drive to make a difference led her to pursue a career in emergency medicine.
When she’s not coordinating care or leading avalanche courses, you can often find Allison working at the Snowbird Clinic or collaborating with the Utah Avalanche Center, where she has served as both an instructor and professional observer.
Allison embodies the spirit of the Wasatch—resilient, adventurous, and full of heart.
Locally Owned & Operated By Professional Mountain Guides
Julie Faure and Tyson Bradley met in Alta, Utah, while they were working and training in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Their adventurous spirits have led them all over the world, where they’ve ticked off first ascents/descents and worked as year-round guides. They always came back to Utah, though.
As Exum and UMA guides, Julie and Tyson were chosen to manage UMA’s day-to-day operations. Their more than 30 years of dedication to the company’s purpose have allowed UMA to nurture a family of guides who live, work and play in the Wasatch and who know the range intimately.
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