Park City, UT – Despite the fury of spring snow storms, including 22 inches of snow on jump day last Thursday, The Canyons’ terrain park crew shoveled, cut and shaped more than 45 thousand yards of snow to create the largest snow terrain park feature ever built in Utah. Why you ask? So Utah’s Grete Eliassen could click into her skis, reach speeds of 60 miles an hour downhill, hit the custom 30 foot “hip” feature and soar more than 31 feet in the air. No woman has ever come close to reaching this height on skis.n

“There is no other experience in the world that feels even close to what I feel when I am jumping. Having such a large feature built just for me was a super humbling experience. With my whole crew, family and friends watching it was really an incredible day. It is a moment in my life I will remember forever,” said Eliassen.

In addition to actively progressing the sport, Eliassen is working on a film project. The ski movie, “Say My Name,” a two-year venture Eliassen embarked upon with longtime ski/snowboard photographer Stan Evans, is slated for release in Fall 2010.