Re: [Texascavers] Nevin Davis

with tarps. Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net From: Texascavers [mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of Dwight Deal Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2021 2:55 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com; Mark Minton Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Nevin Davis I knew Nevin from Pennsylvania

Re: [Texascavers] Nevin Davis

I knew Nevin from Pennsylvania/Butler Cave. He also was an inspired inventor, having built a motorized ascender (MAD I think he called it, for Motorized Ascending Device). Nevin used it to come out of Golendrinas. I think he modified a chain saw engine. He also was an electronic wizard. Somew

Re: [Texascavers] Nevin Davis

Nevin inspired a bunch of us to explore the Cuetzalan area of northern Puebla in Dec. 1973. We found more caves and rich biology. He made many contributions to caving. William R. (Bill) Elliott Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2021, at 11:29 AM, Mark Minton wrote:  Well-known Pennsylvania, Vi

[Texascavers] Nevin Davis

Well-known Pennsylvania, Virginia and Hawaii caver Nevin Davis passed away last week. In the early days he made a couple of very significant trips to Mexico. He published the first definitive study of the caves of Cuetzalan in AMCS Newsletter Vol. 4, no. 5-6 (1974) (free download at