Odds are you’ve never visited Higher Ground, the sprawling, three-story weekend getaway perched atop Warm Springs Mountain in Bath County. The late Rev. Marion G. “Pat” Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and Regent University, built the place in 1993.
It stands on 27 acres at an elevation higher than 4,000 feet, along Airport Road (Virginia 703), just a little ways south of Ingalls Field, the highest-elevation airport east of the Mississippi.
Yours truly and Stephanie Klein-Davis, the intrepid former news photographer, had an exciting time when we visited the place 29 years ago, shortly after Robertson built it. And among those lasting memories is the handgun.
It was a silver semiautomatic number, and we wound up on the unfriendly side of its barrel. Brandishing it, we learned later, was Pat’s (then) bodyguard, Herbert Hicks. But…
