Holden Village is a ‘retreat to another era’

HOLDEN VILLAGE, Chelan County — “Don’t go beyond the trees.” The instructions from backcountry skier Dave Moskowitz could not have been more succinct. No need to worry. I wasn't about to wander too far in wet snow a thousand feet above Holden Village, a historic Lutheran-run retreat center in the North Cascades. A sleeping monster waited on the snow-laden route to Copper Basin. I followed the lines Moskowitz and fellow Methow Valley skier Cal Waichler blazed through the forest t