Who?!

Last update 2/6/10


	Who are these guys, anyway? Who do they think they are?


	Vader and CaverOne, together known as Double/Trouble, are both former members of The Colorado Grotto. We ve been caving in Colorado since 1986.


	A Word From CaverOne a.k.a. Steve, The Hawk, Trouble, Hellen Wheels, and several names not fit to print...

I ve known Vader since we were (yikes!) ten years old. I ve been caving since one fateful day in 1986 when Vader called to say he was taking me to a cool place called Fulford Cave. We got totally lost.

We found our way out, obviously, and I decided to seek out more caves by going to where the cavers were: The Colorado Grotto. I was a member for several years, even going on a grotto trip to Spanish Cave. A miserable cave. I dont care to go back.

I was mostly out of caving for a few years, until Vader dragged my ass all over a damned mountain because he felt he had a good bead on Cave Creek Cavern. Turns out his estimated coordinates, developed with the help of maps and several publications, were within an astounding 52 feet of the cave entrance. I was bit by the exploration bug once again, and the idea for this website was born. That was 2002.

Since, we ve repeated the feat. Vader found Fulton Cave by actually using aerial photographs. (See the Cool Links page for these.) I ve explored dozens of other caves in Colorado, including Hubbards, Porcupine, Wilson, and Lime Creek. Contrary to published reports, I ve never been on a diving trip to Spring Cave, although we did don the wetsuits and got as far as the first sump on our own, back in 1992. Doing the backstroke in a cave in quarter-inch neoprene. Sweet.

In my spare time (what?) I also work in a lighting showroom, design T-shirts, run a fantasy football league, camp, and hike with Vader only on the condition that there are fish or caves at the end of it. The dude is driven, I m tellin ya.

I live in Denver with my beautiful wife and our three amazing children, Lexi, A.J., and Austin.


	A word from Vader a.k.a. ManDan, The Model Thug...


	I am a former member of both the Front Range and the Colorado Grottos. After going through the few caves that I could easily find (Fulford, Spring) I decided to try joining the Colorado and Front Range Grottos in order to find more caves.

	Despite its many misleading directions, the Lloyd Parris book Caves of Colorado provided a good base from which to start looking for caves. This text, along with books and magazines published by various grottos allowed me to locate several caves. Using geologic maps, USGS topographic maps and aerial views, I was

able to pinpoint the locations of caves like Cave Creek Cavern, Fulton, Twenty Pound Tick, and Premonition to within just a few hundred feet. Once in the field, CaverOne proved invaluable in actually locating the cave entrances.

I live in Broomfield Colorado with my lovely wife and four kids. I am a former member of the Douglas County Search and Rescue Team. Besides caving, my hobbies include hiking, canyoneering, arch hunting and geocaching.

THE ORIGINS OF CAVESR4ALL.COM

We have been asked, Why post cave locations, what are you getting out of this? The answers are simple. Foremost, we like to help other people out, especially cavers. We have had opportunities to go caving with other people that we would not have met if it wasnt for the site and their interest in it. And finally, for our own information. Due to like-minded cavers sharing their information with us we have been to caves we would not have found otherwise. Due to this sharing of information, we have been able to increase or own knowledge of cave locations many times over. This has provided us more recreational opportunities, and allowed us to compile an extensive (and still growing) database of Colorado caves.

Cavesr4all.com has not changed the world, but rather just a very small part of it. We will be here for awhile. We have seven children between us, all under age 11. When the time comes, each of them will be encouraged to carry the torch, er, rather, the LED headlamp, well into the future of Colorado caving.

Dan Vader Castellari
Steve CaverOne Hawkins

Cave safely. Cave softly. Cave on.