I was motivated to check this out as I had only been to 2 of these 6 lakes previously. Despite the fact that Devon thinks it's a little "contrived", it made for a nice morning jogging around in the mountains catching up on life. We (well, mostly Devon) took it easy as it was supposed to be a road marathon training run for him, but overall a great tour of some popular and less popular lakes in the park. We did Clockwise starting from fern lake trailhead hitting: Cub Lake, Lake Bierstadt, Lake Bear, Lake Helene, Odessa Lake, and Fern Lake.
Highlights for me:
Elk on the trail that wouldn't move
Cub lake at sunrise
Bierstadt lake w 3 moose in it (and hadn't seen any people at this point)
Fern Creek falls down was a really pleasant downhill (I learned I'm more of a downhill kind of athlete on this run)