Holden Village

Holden Village is a religious retreat center at the edge of the North Cascades.

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Sun., Oct. 1, 2017

The Lady of the Lake takes off from Field's Point on Lake Chelan bound for Holden Village.

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Regular Holden Village visitor Jeff Isensee shoots a selfie from The Lady of the Lake on Lake Chelan.

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Staff at Holden Village hold a welcome sign as the transport vehicle apporoaches the village.

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A visitor walks through Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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A view of the Cacsade Mountains is photographed through the window of the cafeteria at Holden Village in Chelan on Tuesday, August 29, 2017.

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A visitor uses the bowling alley with manual pin set-up at Holden Village, a former company mining town near Lake Chelan. .

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The bowling alley with manual pin set-up is photographed at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Martha Carlson,14, tries her hand at weaving during craft time at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Beverly Swenson of Minnesota shows off her painting hands after taking an art class at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Volunteer Karen Stahl sets up tables for tie-dye at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Raleigh Somm, 11 (top left) Oskar Somm, 7 (top right) both from Seattle and Rainah Rajan 11, of Portland, play on the hammocks at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Beverly Swenson of Minnesota approaches a deer at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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A visitor walks through Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Layers of rock tell the story of the remediation of a former copper mine near Holden Village.

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Visitors walk through the remediation site at former copper mine near Holden Village near Lake Chelan in August.

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Travis Houle, Holden’s naturalist, talks about a tailings left over from a copper mining that occurred at Holden Village during the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Visitors pause in front of rock piles during a tour through the remediation site of a former copper mine near Holden Village.

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Small saplings are growing at a remediation site of a former copper mine near Holden Village.

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Red rocks are visible in Railroad Creek during a tour of remediation work at a former copper mine near Holden Village. The red coloring is an indicator of heavy metals in the water.

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Evidence of the controlled burns set around Holden Village in 2015 are still apparent. Creating a blackened ring around the village protected it from the Wolverine Fire.

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A powerful sprinkler system soaks Holden Village near Lake Chelan in August. The system is used for fire prevention and irrigation.

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A powerful sprinkler system soaks Holden Village near Lake Chelan in August. The system is used for fire prevention and irrigation.

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Holden Village’s fire marshal, Jeff Pierce, talks about fire prevention at Holden in August.

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Visitors attend evening prayers at Holden Village near Lake Chelan in August.

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Sunny Kase of St. Paul, Minnesota, holds her son William, 7, during evening prayers at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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"I'm a cultural activist," says singer Liz Rog, after leading choir practice at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Visitors attend evening story time at Holden Village near Lake Chelan.

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Visitors say goodbye at Holden Village, as a bus departs for the ferry on Lake Chelan.

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Visitors take the ferry back to Field's Point from Holden Village.

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Holden Village is surrounded by flames during the 2015 Wolverine fire.