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My family was recently supposed to camp at Twin Lakes outside of Leadville but an inclement forecast forced us to cancel. Remember last year’s Come Hail or High Water: Our Family’s Shortest (and Worst) Camping Trip?  We did not want a repeat performance. Recreating at Brainard Lake We opted to daytrip later that week to Brainard Lake Recreation Area and with an elevation of 10,000 feet, it was the perfect reprieve from the searing heat. Early in our marriage, we had some memorable snowshoe and hiking adventures in this popular wilderness playground just south of Rocky Mountain National Park but it had been years since our last visit. I had forgotten just how staggeringly beautiful it was. Set in a glacially-carved valley, the craggy peaks of the Continental Divide are the ...