From Lumi’s Founder
Back in 2006, when I decided to pursue a ski racing career with the goal of competing in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, I knew that earning a spot on the US Olympic Team would not come overnight. I set the goal of competing on the Europa Cup circuit in 2007, the World Cup in 2008 and the World Championships in 2009. If I could achieve those goals, I was confident that I could make the team and ski in the 2010 Olympics. There were plenty of “thrill of victory and agony of defeat” moments in those four years, but in the end, I achieved each of those goals along the final steps of the journey to becoming an Olympian.
In launching Lumi’s first Olympic trips, I feel a similar arc to the journey. The first Lumi trip ran in 2018 to the Seefeld World Cup, where guests cheered on Jessie Diggins and Sophie Caldwell to back-to-back World Cup victories on one weekend, just weeks before Jessie and Kikkan Randall teamed up to win Gold at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics in Korea. Following that first Lumi trip, we now run several Worldloppet and World Cup trips annually, plus trips to World Championships in Seefeld 2019, Planica in 2023 and Trondheim in 2025. Now we are ready for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy!
Lumi has built relationships and operated trips in Cavalese, the gateway village to the Olympic cross country skiing events, since 2019. We have ten trip leaders who have led trips to Cavalese over the past several years (including the Marcialonga Ski Marathon) who know the village even better than I do. This is an ideal venue for an exciting Lumi Olympic Experience. I hope you’ll join Lumi for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Olympics!
See you on the trail,