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Penelope Purdy
Penelope Purdy is an award-winning Colorado journalist and guidebook author, as well as a certified sailboat skipper and scuba diver. She also paddles open canoes and inflatable kayaks in moderate whitewater (Class II to Class III- rapids).
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