The Bad Hike (Mount Rogers National Recreation Area).

I've only ever had one really negative experience on a hike. For some years I had three summits on my bag-list that I had not checked off. First, Second, and Third Peak in the high country of the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. Initially, I was going to hike to them via the approach trail from the Grindstone Campground where we were staying. But the trail had been closed due to storm damage and so I had to use the option of driving a Forest Service road to a spot called “Scales“ and using that as my