A Message From The Founder

The Future is Now:

As passionate skiers, we survive the off season by obsessively daydreaming about the winter ahead. We imagine perfect days in knee deep powder, whooping it up with only our friends on the hill. The day ends at our favorite après bar with shotskis, stories and laughter.

ADL DreamTrips strive to recreate that experience at some of the most incredible ski destinations in the world... only we like to take it to the next level. Our first trip of the year is to Wengen, Switzerland where we have traveled with legendary American Downhiller AJ Kitt as our special guest. It's the ultimate Suisse skiing experience with the classic races combined with the big mountain skiing off the Schilthorn in Murren. Following Wengen, we return to Austria for the Superbowl of ski racing at Kitzbuhel. American Downhiller Daron Rahlves once said you can feel the energy of the Streif through your shoes when you walk through the village and we agree. Whether you're in the race or just a spectator like us ... its magical and should be on everyone's bucket list.

In February, we have two to three trips back to back to hidden gems in Japan. The country we call Japow, for obvious reasons, will change forever your definition of the word winter. We go there for the 'fukai yuki' (deep snow) and for the culture, food, local friends and onsens that we soak in morning and night.

March sees us return to Europe for the big mountains of Engelberg and Chamonix. We also have a beautiful trip to the Dolomites. We navigate easily from Switzerland to Italy and on to France, eating and skiing our way down the huge mountains. In the summer we have our annual ADL Mahre Camp at Mt. Hood. with Olympic and World Cup legends Phil and Steve Mahre, who have been helping us become better skiers and racers for the last 14 years. When the snow is good down South, we head to Chile for our final DreamTrip of the year in August, skiing the best of La Parva, Valle Nevado and El Colorado. If skiing big empty mountains all day and finishing with pisco sours and steak on the deck in 70-degree weather is your thing then yes ... Chile is for you amigo.

The club has come a long way since we first started in the garage, with a bunch of dad's teaching their kids to wax their skis, so we could drink beer and play Nageln. Huge thanks to our partners Atomic, Flylow, Sidecut, Peak Skis, Elevenate, Ortovox, Pret, Kulkea and others for all the support over the years. They have helped us as we strive to build the most unique ski club in the world. As the winter approaches your biggest problem should be deciding which trip to go on. It's a tough choice as they are all epic and if I wasn't leading them, I wouldn't know which one to choose either. Luckily, I don't have to.

Keep dreaming. Stay free and have fun,

Sincerely,

Kyle Watson
Founder & CEO