The day before Jim's accident we took a drive up to a fire tower. They advertise it as a tourist attraction. There are picnic tables and a person working the tower that will talk about doing fire watch. We started going up and got more and more nervous about the road. The road was gravel and kept getting more and more narrow and windy. We saw a forest service truck a little bigger than ours going up so we thought if he could go we could too. Well the last half mile of the "road" was just a washed out dirt track. The road was so narrow that we are sure the outside dually tires weren't even touching any road.
When we got up to the top we got out and kissed the ground. We did go up in the tower and saw this beautiful scenery. You can see the town of Libby down below and the Kootenai River running by it. The truck is in the bottom left corner of the other picture. The peaks of the Cabinet Mountains (with snow) are in the background. The guy in the fire tower laughed at our terror getting up there. He takes his truck up and down the road all the time. He stays up there for days at a time. He has to haul water up to the top of the tower and the outhouse is down at the base. No power but he seemed happpy to be working there -- he did have one heck of a view.
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