Jenn Fields

Travel editor and features writer

Jenn Fields

Jenn Fields is a former Denver Post travel editor and features writer. She left in 2018.

Brendan Leonard tackles a thin crack while climbing in Uskedalen, Norway. (Photo by Forest Woodward, courtesy of Brendan Leonard)

Denver author Brendan Leonard takes a journey through addiction, recovery, rock climbing

July 16, 2016 at 3:50 a.m.

Brendan Leonard's new book isn鈥檛 just a climbing memoir. It抖阴ap about getting your life together, figuring out who you want to be 鈥� and how to get that.

Elena Kritter, at left in black tank top, leads a Fit Tour NYC boot camp in New York's Central Park in June 2016. (Photo by Jenn Fields, The Denver Post)

Fit in the City: Three workouts to try next time you visit New York

July 14, 2016 at 6:33 p.m.

A fitness weekend in the city -- a new workout every morning, each with its own flavor, and each thoroughly New York.

Blind hiker Trevor Thomas stands on an overlook along The Colorado Trail with his dog, Tennille, during his quest to hike the entire 489-mile trail.

Blind hiker Trevor Thomas returns to Rockies to wrap up Colorado Trail

July 18, 2016 at 10:07 p.m.

Trevor Thomas and his guide dog and thru-hiking companion Tennille have returned to Colorado to finish a segment of The Colorado Trail that they were unable to complete last summer.

Four good hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park

July 7, 2016 at 5:07 p.m.

A quick-start guide with four reasonable hikes in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Colorado author Eleanor Brown writes to connect in “The Light of Paris”

July 7, 2016 at 3:22 p.m.

If you鈥檙e staring down a staycation this summer even though you鈥檇 rather jet off to Europe, Highlands Ranch author Eleanor Brown鈥檚 new book, 鈥淭he Light of Paris,鈥� might be just...

Is a “cat bar” the purrfect next step for Denver’s cat cafe?

June 13, 2016 at 2:00 p.m.

This won't be a boisterous聽late-night destination. That's not good for the cats.

Book review: “Eligible,” by Curtis Sittenfeld

April 14, 2016 at 11:08 a.m.

Book review: "Eligible," by Curtis Sittenfeld

Runners dash down the Rustler's Loop trail outside of Loma, near the Kokopelli trailhead. As a beginner mountain bike trail, the loop is popular with families.

More trail users in Fruita, and they still all get along

June 21, 2016 at 1:50 p.m.

More trail users in Fruita, and they still all get along

DENVER, CO - APRIL 10: Janie Hile sits in the pew April 10, 2016 during the 11am worship at St. Paul's Methodist Church. St. Paul's Methodist Church, a 156-year-old church in an iconic neoclassical building in Uptown, is closing its doors. The congregation make prayer flags during Sunday worship that will be hung along others that have been hung already through out the Church. (Photo By John Leyba/The Denver Post)

Landmark St. Paul Methodist Church closing after 156 years in Denver

April 21, 2016 at 7:55 a.m.

Landmark St. Paul Methodist Church closing after 156 years in Denver

Augusten Burroughs covers three relationships — in often funny but also embarrassing and painful detail, for both parties — in "Lust & Wonder."

Book review: “Lust & Wonder,” by Augusten Burroughs

April 21, 2016 at 2:46 a.m.

Book review: "Lust & Wonder," by Augusten Burroughs

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