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
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