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I visited Bagby for the first time Presidents Day weekend some years ago with three friends. One of them was a volunteer with Friends Of Bagby, so we stayed in the cabin that night and had ribeyes for dinner. The road in was covered with more than two feet of snow, so we snow shoed in two or three miles before we reached the  parking lot and took the trail the rest of the way in. I will never forget that trip. I have since returned with my children once, during the day on Memorial Day weekend this year. There have been problems at the springs, but I feel confident that things have taken a turn for the better at Bagby and my hopes are that whatever changes are made I can still sit under the stars, in the snow, with my dear friends and family long into the future.

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