Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art. Kurt Steiner Wants the World to Find It.

outsideonline.com ^ | Sep 20, 2022 | staff writer

[Daffynition]

Meet an amazing man who has dedicated his entire adult life to stone skipping, sacrificing everything to produce world-record throws that defy the laws of physics.

[Bob434]

[[Kids today have no idea how to make their own fun. ]]

Sure they do, they download a stone skipping app and sit for hours skipping virtual flat rocks

[printhead]

This activity will raise the level of the seas.

[printhead]

I remember a “Peanuts” strip where Charlie Brown was skipping stones into the water. I think it was Linus who told him that stone took thousands of years to get to shore and he just threw it back.

[bert]

I am an expert stone skipper.

My personal best is 33 skips in one throw

Walnut Bottoms, Big Creek, Great Smokey Mountains National Park

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

For 56, he looks terrible.

[dljordan]

The EPA will make a new ruling immediately to stop it.

[Scrambler Bob]

I threw one, and at the instant I released it, realized it was part of an indian arrowhead (about 1 1/2 inch dia).

It hit a log boom about 30 feet out. I snorkled until I found it.

[Texas resident]

My record is 17 skips. I was in high school at the time.

Taught both kids how to skip rocks and it kept them busy for hours.

[csvset]

Smith River California. Family camp trips . Had some good rocks for skipping, We were actually more impressed by stones that would turn a bit and create a rooster tail.

There was quite a bit of pumice there from Crater Lake/Mount Mazama. Throw a large chunk of that in then commence shore bombardment before it floated away.

[xp38]

Nevertheless I rank this above collecting Pokemon cards.

[LambSlave]

23 skips is the most I’ve ever got; broke 20 quite a bit, but could never get much past that.

[Kinzua]

Nice guy. He used to live a few blocks away from me for years. I wondered where he moved to.

[SunkenCiv]

[BenLurkin]

Steiner!

[nicollo]

If we could only convince all leftists to pick up and leave for the nearest pond and spend the rest of their lives skipping stones... Not a bad example here.

[Daffynition]

He reminds me of several *famous* men who have carved themselves notoriety in their own areas.

David Lawrence of Albany, VT; The Story of Pete the Moose,

HD Thoreau of Walden fame

Dick Proenneke, Alaska

The/Leatherman(vagabond)

[Daffynition]

I've never had the fortune to find such such great skipping stones

[Scarlett156]

My dad was really a pro at stone-skipping. He and his bros would have contests.

[Daffynition]

The best things in life are free.

I come from the era when "mumblety-peg" was a thing....and all kids carried a pocket knife in their pocket.

Can you imagine, today that happening?

How far we have fallen from the pure pleasures of growing up.

A game of marbles?

[Daffynition]

So true.

What if you required to have a permit?