Sierra Mountain Guides  

The Sierra Mountain range features 13 of California’s +14k ft mountains, including Mt Whitney, and receives over 300 days of sun a year with temperatures ranging from 10F to 80F and wind-speeds often over 100mph. This unique combination of sunshine, elevation, extremes in temperature, and wind make it a highly challenging environment for our skin.

Utu is the official outdoor skincare partner for Sierra Mountain Guides. Their world class guides are dedicated to connecting people to the mountains. As the premier guide service in the Sierra Mountains and beyond they specialize in ski mountaineering, backcountry skiing and snowboarding, rock climbing, ice climbing, alpine mountaineering, avalanche education, all forms of backpacking, and mountain running. Utu has partnered with their guides through all seasons to help develop, beta-test and refine our Outdoor Skincare formulations ensuring they deliver unparalleled protection and nourishment to skin when released to the public. 

Learn more about their service-oriented, environmentally responsible, and culturally sensitive guides and guide services here: 
sierramtnguides.com

Native Like Water

For over 20 years, Native Like Water (NLW) has reconnected tribal youth in Southern California and beyond with their ancestral coastal heritage. NLW improves the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of indigenous youth through water recreation, marine science education, and habitat restoration. By engaging youth in these activities, NLW promotes health and counters climate change impacts.

Utu proudly supports NLW, including their annual summer InterTribal Youth Program, which provides high and middle school youth with a holistic, indigenous education. This program blends wellness, culture, leadership, and academic enrichment into a transformative ocean and beach experience.

For more information on Native Like Water and how you can support their mission, visit: www.nativelikewater.org

Smile Mountain Guides

Smile Mountain Guides is a local guide service and climbing school, nationally renowned, and based in the heart of the Colorado mountains. Founded with a singular mission—to inspire growth and exploration in the mountains—they’ve built a guide service where guests are treated like partners. With small, close-knit teams and a strong focus on trust and support, Smile creates powerful shared experiences that forge lasting mountain bonds.

At Utu, we share this passion for inspiring and enabling outdoor exploration. That’s why we’re excited to partner with Smile Mountain Guides, providing their talented team and guests with our Outdoor Skincare products. Together, we’ll ensure their skin is protected and nourished in the demanding mountain environment, so they can focus on the adventure ahead.

To learn more visit: https://www.smilemountainguides.com

The Surf Bus Foundation

Utu proudly supports The Surf Bus Foundation, the Santa Monica based organization dedicated to fostering a healing connection to the ocean. Each summer, their Surf buses transport over 3,000 children from economically challenged neighborhoods to the beach, where they experience the joys of surfing and swimming, engage in beach games, participate in beach clean-ups, and learn vital ocean safety and literacy. The Surf Bus Foundation's mission is not only to introduce these children to the wonders of the ocean but also to empower them with knowledge and skills that promote safety and respect for our marine environments. Utu provides our outdoor skincare formulations to all the children and team members throughout the program ensuring they can fully enjoy their transformative beach experiences knowing that their skin and the ocean is protected and nurtured.

For more information on The Surf Bus Foundation and how you can support their mission, visit: www.surfbusfoundation.org

Venice Surf Association

Utu proudly supports the Venice Surfing Association (VSA) a non-profit organization that celebrates the history, present, and future of surfing in Venice, California. The VSA hosts surf events and coastal activism. Utu provides our outdoor skincare formulations to competitors at events, as part of prize packages, and for fund raising purposes throughout the year to raise awareness and ensure all the participants are well protected.

For more information on The Venice Surf Association you can visit: www.vsa.la