Specialists in Vertical Adventures

As a small company we place a premium on our guests' experience. Our goal as your guide service starts with an understanding of your ambitions and abilities as we try to match you with the type of experience that will bring you the greatest rewards.

Safety and risk management is at the foundation of your guides' knowledge and expertise. Through guide trainings and an ongoing review process, we try to maintain the highest standards of professionalism, year in year out.

Our guides can also provide an abundance of regional information, from geology and natural history, to ethics and sensitive environmental issues. With that said, we must admit the true reason we do what we do, is because we absolutely love it!

Geoff Unger

Climbing and Canyoneering Guide

Geoff's extensive backcountry experience includes seven years on rock, including alpine and big wall climbing. He has successfully ascended numerous difficult free climbs and committing aid routes on the desert cliffs and towers of southern Utah. Other far-out adventures have taken him to the walls of Yosemite and to the alpine faces of the French Alps. We're convinced that climbing is his passion, though winter snow does temporarily seduce him away from desert rock and back to his home town of Sun Valley, ID—where he's a back country shredder, and coach for the local free style ski team.

Geoff's confident nature and relaxed demeanor makes him a frequently requested guide for our returning clients.

Professional Certifications:

• Wilderness First Responder
• American Alpine Club, Member
• American Mountain Guide Association, Associate Member

Brett Sutteer

Executive Director, Climbing and Canyoneering Guide

Brett possesses an obvious passion for both rock climbing and exploring the deepest recesses of this amazing desert landscape. Wanting to share his enthusiasm, he opened Moab Cliffs and Canyons in 1999 and since then has introduced hundreds of people to the thrill of vertical play.

A native Utahn, he began rock climbing more than 25 years ago in the Wasatch and Wind River Mountains and has subsequently established many routes throughout his home state. He moved to Moab in 1985 and began his adventure career as a commercial raft guide, logging thousands of commercial river trip miles while working on 20 rivers in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Russia, Mexico, and Argentina/Chile. A kayaking obsession quickly grew, culminating with dozens of Class V descents on many of the classic rivers of the western U.S. and Mexico. Concurrently, he worked as a mountain bike guide when the sport was still in its infancy, founded a bike touring company and pioneered a handful of trips that are now common for more than a dozen companies operating today. Since 1995, he's been a contractor developing and coordinating large vertical adventure programs for an international travel and adventure firm in remote areas around the world including; Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, Russia, Czech Republic, Mexico, Dominican Republic and elsewhere.

His extensive experience on the rock has also made him a sought after technical rock rigger, stuntman, and location scout resulting in his work on more than 30 film/photo productions. The consummate adrenaline junkie and desert factoid master, he is also an expert telemark skier, adventure racer and dirt biker.

Professional Certifications

• Utah State Certified Emergency Medical Technician—Level I
• Helicopter Short Haul
• Employee of Grand County E.M.S (ambulance)
• Grand County S.A.R. Winter Rescue Team Leader
• National Park Service's I-Sky Technical Rock Rescue
• Swiftwater Rescue Technician

Chris Conrad

Raised in Pennsylvania, Chris Conrad relocated to Moab in 1996 pursuing a life of adventure and a career outdoors. An experienced leader and teacher, Chris has been an avid climber, hiker, and explorer for the past 8+ years. After serving as Grand County's Director of Emergency Medical Services for 4 years and gaining invaluable experience in responding to serious urban and backcountry medical emergencies, Chris resigned to return to his more adventurous roots and fulfill personal goals. Chris' easy-going personality and technical expertise make him a terrific guide and an effective instructor.

Chris' love for the canyons of the Southwest may be best expressed through his photography. You can see his work at www.PetroScans.com .

Professional Certifications

• Utah State Certified Emergency Medical Technician - Level I
• Medical Training Officer Grand County Emergency Medical Services

Scott Deputy

Scott started climbing 5 years ago, and his passion for the outdoor lifestyle quickly led to him leaving behind a professional legal career in Missouri. He has since wandered the West looking for Thoreau�fs �glife of true experience.�h Along the way, he found a love for the perfect cracks and adventurous sandstone towers of the Desert Southwest. Scott made Cliffs and Canyons his home in the spring of 2007, and quickly found joy in showing others what he had found.

Scott is an experienced educator with teaching experience in both a traditional classroom and on the rocks. He started teaching climbing in 2005, and has taught a number of skills, including vertical self-rescue.

Professional Certifications

• Wilderness First Responder
• American Canyoneering Association Technical Canyoneering Graduate
• American Canyoneering Association Canyon Rescue Graduate

Amanda Smith

Amanda has been climbing for ten years now, and teaching climbing for eight. Though she spent many weeks and often months enjoying different locales, she did not move from her home in southern Missouri until 2007. Moab�fs combination of aesthetic sandstone climbing and haunting landscapes first took hold of her on a road trip in 2005, and she�fs been returning ever since, until the spring of 2007 when she began guiding here

Amanda�fs long-term experience with vertical terrain has given her a strong base for leading people up and down the cliffs and canyons of southern Utah, and a comfort with coaching others through the mental and physical challenges involved. In fact, these very challenges are the fuel for her passion for introducing people to these activities.

Professional Certifications

• Wilderness First Responder
• AMGA Certified Top Rope Site Manager