Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park's Lakes

I hiked all of the lakes in the four valleys accessible from the Bear Lake Trailhead in Rocky Mountain National Park in early November 2024. It was a great time of year to hike because crowds are smaller and the timed-entry system that is in place over the summer ended in October.
Though the trails were icy and snowy, that was mitigated by wearing microspikes/traction.
On this day I hiked to Bear Lake (at the trailhead), Nymph Lake, Dream Lake, Emerald Lake, Lake Haiyaha, Loch Vale, Lake of Glass, Sky Pond, Mills Lake, and Black Lake. It was a big day of nearly 19 miles and over 4,000 feet of elevation gain, but it was a beautiful day with perfect weather and mostly unpopulated trails.