Terje Haakonsen signed a contract with Burton when he was just 15 years old. He's been one of the most recognized snowboarders in the world ever since. During his nearly 30 year career Terje has dominated competitive snowboarding, ascended runs in Alaska that no one had ever done before, taken snow skating to the next level, and been and outspoken critic of the Olympics (exposing many people, myself included, to the negative impact the Olympics have on the planet, the host cities, and on the entire snowboarding community). It was an honour to sit with snowboarding's truest legend.