Penney Garrett

Penney is a seasoned traveler and rock climber currently residing in sunny Colorado. She loves yoga, sport and trad climbing, hiking, backpacking, and camping in the Rocky Mountains and surrounding areas. Besides contributing to OutdoorGearLab, Penney has worked in specialty coffee for over a decade and is currently the Director of Quality Control for Copper Door Coffee Roasters as well as an executive board member of the Rocky Mountain Craft Coffee Alliance. She is an accomplished Paleo chef, certified nutritionist, and clinical herbalist, so when she's not climbing rocks or slurping coffee she loves to use her botany training to identify wild plants, collecting them for medicine or some sort of delicious concoction. Other passions range from home brewing to painting and she’s always planning the next adventure in the great outdoors.