Chad's Gap

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. 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. The first known successful jump my also have been done by Candide Thovex. The jump now even has a Facebook page, with a map, locating the jump just NE of Alta ski area. It is difficult to find out more factual information about the gap, as an ongoing internet meme persists, whereby users insist various fictional pieces of information are facts (especially regarding people who have jumped the gap, and local's attitudes towards anyone asking).