Last update 1/30/08

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Hubbards Cave

CaverOne in the Gypsum Room.

Buffalo Cave

Above: The Grape Room is a smallish room whose walls are completely covered with botryoid, like millions of grapes. 

Left: Bizarre, twisted pendants hang in the Gypsum Room. 

Right: A formation in the middle of the floor that we thought looked like two children.

Another strange formation rises from the floor.

The main part of Buffalo Cave is a large domed room with a 40 foot long skylight.  The distance from the ceiling to the floor is about 30 feet.

At one end of the room is a deep pit which Vader and Matt decsended into.  Rapelling and ascending gear are required to enter this pit.  Below, Vader shot some of the most beautiful and abundant formations we’ve yet seen.

It was Matt s first attempt at ascending, and with Vader s guidance, he took to it like he was an old hand at it.

More photos from the bottom of the pit.  The formations are all intact, and the two climbers were careful that they remained that way, making sure they did not touch them as they ascended past.

Below, Vader struggles out of the pit.  He had a hard time getting over the last lip, but dogged determination won out.

Left:  Vader packs up his climbing gear after exploring the pit.

Thursday Morning Cave

Thursday Morning Cave is one of the most beautifully decorated and fragile caves we have ever seen. 

Above:  Vader climbs through the entrance passage after a VERY tight crawl to get in.

Left and below:  Most formations in Thursday Morning are white and pristine.  To touch them would be to destroy them.

Below:  Matt squats down to get a close look at some of the numerous formations, careful not to come into contact with the fragile walls around him.

Above:  A rather large sized mouse we spotted hiding deep in a crevice near the entrance.  Just as CaverOne snapped this photo, the mouse turned tail and disappeared DEEPER into the crevice and out of sight.  Does more extensive cave exist?  Only the mouse knows.

Indian Steam Cave

Above left:  Rodger peers down into the entrance of Indian Steam Cave alongside the railroad tracks in Glenwood Canyon.  Above right:  Wooden planks span water emerging from the far passage at 130 degrees F.  Simply breathing the hot, humid air in Indian Steam Cave was difficult, and the smell of sulfur was overwhelming.

Above left: Vader checks out the hottest lead in Colorado, Indian Steam Cave.  Above right:  This brick-walled passage leads straight toward the Colorado River.  This man-made improvement indicates that this cave was once a bath house.

Palmer Lake Ice Cave

Palmer Lake Ice Cave is a jumbled pile of boulders with water running through it.  Passages, cracks and crevices are everywhere, and it was easy to get turned around.

Above left:  the main entrance.  There are several smaller, more vertical entrances, some just large enough to put your head through.
Above right:  Vader crawls through the boulders.

Left:  Vader looks up at one of the numerous skylights.
Above:  CaverOne takes a breather.

Typically, there are no formations in the boulder caves.  Just countless places to climb and crawl through.

Above: CaverOne stands above one of the pits as Vader climbs out.
Above right:  Vader does the splits, trying to stay above the knee-deep water in the entrance passage.
Below:  Having lost his footing and gotten his feet wet, Vader says screw it and wades in.
Below right:  Vader emerges with his Geocache, which he floats out to CaverOne in the entrance.

Randomly Cool Cave Photos

Left: This is a fossil we found, not in a cave, but just outside of one.  It has a jellyfish-like appearance.  (Is there an Anthropologist in the house?)

Left:  Looking out of a small shelter cave in Lime Creek Canyon.

Above: Just some nice fossils (no, not us) embedded in a cave wall.

CaverOne in the entrance to Spanish Cave, 1990

Vader and CaverOne with our friend Carolyn at Fulford Cave, 1987