Starkad Ski Club

It featured reports, interviews, poems, plays, and drawings from the early days of skiing in Norway, often with a humorous touch and high quality.

Paus described the founding as follows: On Sunday, November 14, 1897, three hopeful youths around 15 years old walked down the path from Øvre Frognersæter to Voksenkollen.

The largest, Thoralf, distinguished himself by a strong rotundity in the posterior region; the second, Thomas, had large, round eyes and delightful chubby cheeks; the smallest, George, was a little fiery fellow with hands in his pockets and an upturned nose.

They all chattered eagerly and gesticulated with arms and legs, discussing the great problem: the founding of a ski clubA few days after the founding, the club held a general assembly in the top floor of Paus's home at (Old) Nissen’s Girls’ School, and Alf Jørgensen, Bjarne Wold, Fredrik Parr, and Hans and Niels Hertzberg joined the association.

In the fall of 1898, Robert Schirmer, Sigurd Orre, Thorvald Heyerdahl, Gunnar Frost, and Kristian Norby became members.

Many texts and especially drawings by later architect Thoralf Ridder were of high quality, and the newspaper is regarded as an important historical source from the early days of skiing.

The editors were elected at the general meeting, and the newspaper was regularly published as a handwritten and illustrated report circulated among members.