Chad's Gap has only been cleared by a few snowboarders, including
Travis Rice and
Romain De Marchi , who completed a backside 540, switch backside 540, cab 720, a backside rodeo 720, as well as a backside 180 no grab in the snowboarding video "Pop - Absinthe". It was also cleared on
snowblades in the winter of 2005, which created much respect and support within the ski industry for the upcoming sport of snowblading.
The secret location of the gap is a topic of hot debate. Most scholars now believe that it is located in the
Wasatch range in Utah, in close proximity to the
Alta ski resort. There are many conflicting theories regarding how to get to Chads from the bottom of Alta.
Although the gap was originally made and hit by skiers, it is now dominated by the
snowboard world. Pro snowboarder
Marc Frank Montoya and his acquaintences within the Mack Dawg crew protect the gap from being hit by
gapers. If a skier manages to find the route from the bottom of Alta, they will inevitably be denied permission to hit the gap by the notoriously aggressive group of 'boarders.