Escalante Utah Professional Guide Service

Escalante Shuttles

                             We are Escalante's locally based Professional Guide Service.

 

Professional Guide Services
 

   The Girls - Kai, Elle, Beau  



Guide's day off 
 

Made in the Shade

 

Rick Green
Owner/Guide
  • Born in sunny Southern California
  • Raised in camping family, exploring the Mojave Desert, Four Corners, Sierras, etc. Great fun!
  • US Army, 8th ID Europe
  • Bachelors Degree, Exercise Science, Utah State University 93'
  • EMT 1A
  • Wilderness First Responder, American Canyoneering Association
  • Wilderness First Aid, AAOS
  • Internship, Cardiology
  • Professional Ski Patrolman
  • Winter Mountaineering, 80hr course
  • Member of Escalante Search and Rescue
  • Hiking and canyoneering in S Utah 20 yrs
  • Researching and exploring Escalante 15 yrs
  • Awarded Hiking and Backpacking “Guide of the Year 2005” by Outdoor Utah Recreation Guide
  • ACA (American Canyoneering Association) Certified Canyoneering Guide, Class A/B Canyons
  • ACA Certified Instructor, Technical and Advanced         

    Interests - Amie, exploring unvisited places, powder skiing, helping folks and animals and
    Labrador kisses. 
                                                                         

    
 Rick Green

Bobcat Rescue Story    Skunk Rescue Story

         What's New? Visit our BLOG!             
 

   
Amie Fortin
Excursions Director 

  • Born in Southern New Hampshire
  • Grew up playing and building forts in the woods
  • AA in Travel and Convention Management
    Newbury College, Boston
  • BA in Hospitality Management
    Newbury College, Boston
  • Visited almost every National Park in the West
  • Backpacked Europe and Baja, MX
  • Visited Escalante and met Rick in May 2004
  • Moved to Escalante November 2004
Interests – Rick, Super Emma (cat), George, (cat) family, food, and movies….that I never get to go see, living in Escalante.
   Amie Fortin
 

   
Rich Carlson
Instructor 

  • Certified Army Instructor
  • ACA/CEC Certified Canyon Guide
  • ACA Certified Instructor
  • Certified Wilderness First Responder
  • ECSI Certified Instructor: Wilderness First Aid, First Aid and CPR
  • Certified High Angle Rope Rescue Technician  
  • Certified Ropes Challenge Course Facilitator
  • Army Commendations for Innovations in Training
  • Professional Member, American Mountain Guides Association
  • AMGA Certified - Top Rope Site Management
  • Started the first canyoneering guide service in the U.S. in 1990. Teaching canyon rescue, canyon leader, canyon guide and canyoneering instructor courses since 1999.
  • Guided and taught climbing from 1990 to 2002. Guide service was accredited by the American Mountain Guides Association.
Rich is a member of the ACA's Board of Directors and oversees the ACA's training programs.
                 Rich Carlson

         American Canyoneering Association
 

   
Matt Graham 
Survival Expert & Instructor

     •  Teaching Professionally for over 15 years
     •  Head Instructor for BOSS (Boulder Outdoor Survival
        School) for 9 years
     •  Head Instructor for Mountain and Canyon Hunter
        Gatherers for 8 years (BOSS)
     •  Teacher at the Major Primitive Skills gathering for
         the past 10 years 
     •  Contributing writer to the Society of Primitive      
        Technology
     •  Consultant for the Marine Corps 14 day course
     •  Consultant for Television Series "Survior Man"
     •  Certified Wilderness First Responder

Matt is a World renowned survivalist and is known best for his expertise in primitive survial skills.  He lives off the grid in a pit house here in Southern Utah, constructing everything from arrowheads and his own shoes to the buckskin shirt on his back.     

  Matt Graham 
     

Richard Palmer aka "Mac" 
Guide

     •  Born and raised in Utah 
     •  Certified Wilderness First Responder 
     •  ACA Technical Canyoneering Course    
     •  Avid rock climber 
















  Mac 
 

   
Angus Wiessner
Assistant Guide 

     •  Born and raised in Colorado
     •  Certified Wilderness First Responder
     •  Certified Wilderness First Aid
     •  Certified Leave No Trace
  Angus Wiessner 
 

   
Caitlin Hutter
Assistant Guide 

  • B.S. Natural Resource Recreation, Forestry minor. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Certified First Responder
  • Certified Project Learning Tree Instructor for Ages K-12
  • Certified Project Wild Instructor for Ages K-12
  • Raised in Crockett, Texas
  • Rock climbing for five years
  • Camping and backpacking for 15 years
  • Horseback riding for 10 yrs
  • Have backpacked the Presidential Range in CO, Bear Tooths in MT, Death Valley, CA, backcountry canoe trip in the Okeefenokee Swamp, FL and numerous trips in Utah.
  • Spelunking in many Virginia caves while in college
Interests - Traveling, hiking, designing jewelry and
the lure of a faint trail.
  Caitlin Hutter 

125 East Main Street
P.O. Box 605
Escalante, UT, 84726

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