This bit is usually quite repetitive... if you've read it once, it doesn't change! That's the nature of history I guess. Anyway... it all started at Kings College, London in 1978/79. Kings owes its existance mostly to the enthusiasm of a guy called Chris Franklin. Chris's single-minded aim throughout his student career was finding ways of getting groups together to go skiing on snow... a task made difficult while subsisting on grant money and part-time work around the Union in Surrey Street. However Chris was nothing if not enterprising... with a particularly charming personality and the amazing ability to be able to sell ice to Eskimos! Useful when you need a few paying mates to generate a free place for an impoverished snow-lover!

A question we get asked from time to time is "How do I become an official"? The answer is that you need to have been a member of an affiliated team and raced regularly in the leagues for at least a full year. After taht, and having seen the task being carried out... have a word with one of the officials in your own league - and volunteer! Okay... you've taken the first step, and now there's a small surgical proceedure... no, not really :-)