RYAN HARTEGAN

AMGA APPRENTICE SPLITBOARD & ALPINE GUIDE // SINGLE PITCH INSTRUCTOR // WFR // GSG FOUNDER

Golden State Guiding founder Ryan Hartegan has an affinity for climbing, the places it takes you, and the memories created along the way. Ryan has been climbing for 15 years all over California from the tough quartz monzonite desert granite of Joshua Tree, to the lichen streaked granite of the High Sierra and Yosemite, to the pumping sport routes in Owen's River Gorge, to splitter days up on Tahquitz and in the canyon’s on Red Rock. Ryan enjoys all disciplines of climbing but his heart lies with alpine starts, long approaches and high elevation gains mixed with grueling days out and long routes, to put it shortly, the Sierra. Ryan is an AMGA Apprentice Splitboard and Alpine Guide, Single Pitch Instructor, Wilderness First Responder, and an AIARE Pro 1 course graduate.