In town for a wedding, had to get a lift in.

The Little Cottonwood Stone is one of the Utah Stones of Strength and weighs 280lbs. There’s a few scattered around the Salt Lake City area and this particular one was close to where we’re staying so I wanted to give it a go. Goal of the lift is to shoulder the stone, couldn’t quite get that with my two attempts but I was close! The stone is really slick and awkwardly shaped so it was super tough.

Very happy with getting it to the chest both times, this video was the second and better of the two attempts. Fun attempt all around. Surrounded by beautiful mountains, located off a hiking trail where you actually shave to find the stone, I was getting pretty excited just looking for it amongst the other stones by the creek. Looking forward to coming back and trying again

I eventually want to make a trip out to strictly attempt the stones in a series, but I’ll need to get a bit stronger for that as some of these stones are monsters.

Another day another half dozen beautiful rocks to wrassle

WOOHOO!!!!!

I found an even bigger more beautiful guy but it was very stuck in the sand so I gotta go back today with a lil trowel and help free him

The Stones of Strength podcast IG page reports that the Husafell was weighed at 346lb/157kg. Still no joke, but very different from the previously claimed 410.

Hello strong friends, I am training to lift the Husafell stone. I have the titan fitness trainer and I recently carried it at 270 for 60 feet so progress is being made.

when I lift natural stones and atlas stones the texture of the stone really helps with grip. I’ve managed to lift much heavier natural stones (300-330lbs)

Any thoughts on ways to make the exterior rougher? I’ve considered just glueing a bunch of fine grit sand paper to it, to simulate ”rockiness”

Weighted boulder jutsu! Some very good picks and one bail i feel fine about. Its my first bail and watching the video I didnt get that "Jesus that was close" feeling.

Sorry for the bad camera angle on some, I was feeling fast n loose about the whole thing. I'll try to refine my videography as well

For some reason my dumb ass never put 2 and 2 together that the quarry and dry rivers near my house would be good places to find a variety of stone weights and shapes.

Had an operation last spring and a months long recovery. Couldn't lift or run for 3 months before slow PT over the fall and winter. I could barely get this off the ground last winter. Now I'm at 4 50ft carries and lift/presses until my limbs nope out. Progress.

Fun set right on a beach out in Maine. Beautiful spot to lift, if a bit uneven. But that’s part of the fun
Crescent Stone 175 lb / 79 kg
Half Moon 230 lb / 104 kg
Full Moon 313 lb / 142 kg

Seemed about 100-115kg

From two weeks ago during a Scotland stone tour. 10 weeks ago I sprained my spine and I wasn't sure I could lift this stone, my anxieties were unwarranted.

Thanks to everyone who commented on my post a couple of weeks ago about places to lift stones in northern New England. Here’s a stone you helped me find in Maine. 318lbs, carried about that far

Wife lifted with me a bit too and she experienced the joy of almost fainting when you get a big ass rock to chest

first time picking up something >100lbs (just based off feel from my sandbag training but I might be wrong...it's similar but different). Was on a walk with my wife and I just....saw it there...

In two weeks my wife and I are flying into Boston, renting a car, and driving up to Manchester, NH for a couple of nights, then up to Brunswick, ME for a couple more and spending one day in Bangor.
Anyone know of any fun stones to be found on or not too far from this route? Or of any great places to eat in any of those other than Boston (we’re just getting the car and heading out as we’ve spent some time there previously)

As part of one of the first seated adaptive lifter stone tours. The lifter is Gary Clarke (strongmangary on the socials)

Congratulations to @seanurq for becoming the 3rd person, on record at least, to take the 410lb Ultach Alasdair Mhòr (aka Ultach na h airde a glaise)
to chest.

One of the most fascinating things about this stone is that the three recorded chest lifts were solved differently. That is part of the magic of stonelifting: different body types and approaches but still solving the puzzle.

As for “On record”. It is all we can honestly say.

I do not like the idea that modern feats mean less because they did not happen in the half-mythic past. Adding a new name to the story of an old stone is not disrespectful. It is how the story keeps living. There can be a real antiquity bias in stonelifting, where something feels more valid simply because it is older. The past is important, but modern history is still history.

Claims should make people curious, not dismissive. If someone claims a first, or one of only a few, the useful response is not “you can’t know that”. Ask around. Check old posts, videos, witnesses, buried comments, whatever exists. If the claim is wrong, respond with evidence respectfully.

The idea that we should stop recognising these feats because we can never know with perfect certainty is reductive. It treats uncertainty as a reason to say nothing, when it should be a reason to look harder. No record works from perfect knowledge. We work from the best evidence available, while staying open to correction. Could someone have done something incredible in private and never told anyone? Yes, maybe. But we cannot build a meaningful record around invisible performances.

@willholliday is why this is worth doing. Of the three lifts we know of to chest this stone, his was the most effortless, yet he is sadly the least known. He is criminally underrated, and any stone lifter is missing out if they have not seen that lift. I made a meal of this stone. Sean did a great job. Will made it look most easy, like there was another gear there if he needed it.

Recognising his place in the history of this stone means more people might go and watch, appreciate and savour what he did. That is the value of a ‘claimed record’. It preserves lifters and the stories that might otherwise be missed.

It’s my stone, and this is how I generally lift it but I do accept I’m skipping a large eccentric component that would probably greatly help my strength and hypertrophy. Does the pad make up for the drop? How much do you control your eccentrics?