Chad's Gap
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Chad's Gap is a 120 foot (around 36 meters) backcountry gap located in the Wasatch Mountains, near Alta Ski Area, in Utah, United States. Chad's Gap is a part of extreme skiing lore and facts about its exact location are usually difficult to come by, which has become the subject of a continual meme. [1] One version of the structure's discovery has it that Chad Zurinskas, a local Utah resident after whom the gap was purportedly named, discovered it as a gap between two piles of mine tailings in 1999 and arranged with filmmaker Kris Ostness to make the first successful jump.[1] The first successful jump was done by Candide Thovex.
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- ^ a b Jill Adler; Rachael Hodson
Other aspects of the meme include that it has been blown up by Alta ski patrol, that it is guarded by snowboarder gangs, and that the jump takes three days to build. All completely untrue. A map and facbook has recently appeared showing its exact location (just NE of the Alta parking lot).Chad's Map - Facebook page.. "CHAD'S GAP: The gap no one can shut up about" (on-line only). Powdermag.com. Source Interlink Media. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
Every ski magazine has written something about Chad's Gap....
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