Nisbet Forest Fire Towers Pines Reserve region
Although decommissioned the "North Cabin Road" Fire tower is still standing
and it came in handy in the spring of 2006. We were riding up the "Oil Well
Road" when we came across a motorist in distress. Driving a late model car this
guy had been plowing through miles of trails that had been lightly plowed over
the winter for some logging operators. In many of the low spots there was a
substantial amount of water, and here he was. The lightly plowed "Lilly Plain
Road" turned into the unplowed "Oil Well Road". But he kept going over hill
after hill in fairly deep snow until a low spot below a hill full of spring run
off swallowed him up! He was kind of thinking that the four of us were going to
wade into this knee deep water and try to push his hung up car out. I don't
think so, he said that he was traveling from Prince Albert to Edmonton. I hate
to point this out, but this guy had already gotten on the wrong side of the
river when he left Prince Albert! An offer to take his wet _ _ _ out side
the forest to a farmers for help was turned down. He had no wallet or credits
cards or money! At his point I was keeping a close eye on him and my snowmobile,
I made a point of putting my keys in my pocket. He said "that he'd be fine that
he still had half a tank of gas". We left and were able to get cell reception by
climbing part way up the north cabin tower. Best described as a motorist in
distress the R.C.M.P. paid him a visit with a tow truck!
The South Fire Tower was an old wooden structure that was built in the
1950's it was a favorite stop because it was just off the "Roddick Trail" that
lead you past the old Fisher Homestead. Suddenly one day we had found it laying
on the ground, rotten to the core someone had done the right thing and pulled in
down before it fell on it's own. It did however serve a purpose and the size of
the timber that was down just a short distance away was proof that there hadn't
been a fire in the near vicinity for quite awhile.
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