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.
One version suggests that Chad Zurinskas, a local Utah resident known by the gap's name, found an opening between two heaps of mine waste in 1999 and worked with filmmaker Kris Ostness to make the first successful jump.