Peetu Piiroinen made history yesterday by winning the Oakley Arctic Challenge in Oslo and clinching the overall TTR title for the second straight year. The double win comes right on the heels of his silver medal in Vancouver. Yeah you could say the kid is having a good year. Homeland favorites Torstein Horgmo and Mikkel Bang took second and third. Read the whole story on ESPN and check out a rad photo gallery by Matt Murray after the jump.

As they head towards the end of their second season the Powder & Rails crew dropped a special treat this week with the full length release of Roadkill, Dave Seoane’s opus featuring Jamie Lynn, Shaun Palmer, Terje Haakonsen, John Cardiel, Bryan Iguchi and more. These dudes invented the shred lifestyle.

The new issue of rad Canadian mag Updown has just dropped. This time around there is shreditorial on Matty Ryan, Terje, Party Snake, Hardingham, Alex Paradis, Nathalee Paolinelli, Ben Bilocq, Fucked up, Erik Pants, and Jon Roth along with lots of other fun that can only come from the great minds of the Great White North.

For the second portion of Eero’s Ettala’s time in British Columbia filming for “Tracking Eero”, he really got the trip of a lifetime, full-on pow sessions with living legend Terje Haakonsen and buck wile young buck Jake Blauvelt. Here’s a teaser until the full thing comes out next year. Tracking Eero airs on Fuel on Sunday’s at 8:30.

Burton took a pretty rad approach with their beanie presentation for this year’s catalog. Flipping the switch on both regular rider shots and mannequins, they combined the two into some pretty bugged out pseudo-dummies starring their team. You’ve got Terje, Keegan Valaika, Kim Rune Hansen, Marko Grilic, Mads Jonsson, Mark Sollars, Jussi Oksanen, Chris Sorman, Stephan Maurer and Kazu Kokubo’s decapitated and cryogenically frozen-looking dome pieces laced with Burton’s 2010 beanie line. And the beanies look pretty dope too. They are all out now at Burton flagship stores. Check out the rest of the heads after the jump.

Norwegian shredder Stale Sandbech is a 15 year old phenom who has been pegged by Terje Haakonsen as the future of Nordic snowboarding. Put it this way, most riders never get invited to the Arctic Challenge, Stale was there when he was 11. ESPN Action has a dope new interview with Stale here. Check it out.

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Continuing on with Norway day at Rad Collector, we bring you the Terje Haaksonsen Enviro-Dance video. Terje’s Arctic Challenge is not only the most esteemed snowboarding event in the world, its also the most green. Here Terje explains just how green it is. For more on Terje, check out his recent interview with ESPN.

Snowboarding’s only rider owned event went off this weekend in Linderudkollen, Norway with France’s Arthur Longo being crowned the overall champion of the Oakley Arctic Challenge. Event founder and highest air record holder Terje Haakonsen kept his high air title despite being the oldest competitor by a decade. Vikings don’t play. For behind the scenes galleries hit up Oakley and for the news breakdown head over to ESPN. Photo by Matt Murray. Full results after the jump.

The Oakley Arctic Challenge is going down this week in Oslo, Norway. Widely considered by pro riders to be the best snowboarding event in the world, the 2009 Arctic Challenge is set to feature major players like Danny Davis, Kevin Pearce and the event’s founder and owner Terje Haaksonsen. Rad Collector will be in Oslo so stay tuned for more on the 10th anniversary of this killer contest.

In anticipation of tomorrow’s Snowscrapers contest, the Oakley Snow Team will be making an appearance at the Oakley O Store today at 6:30 pm. Shaun White, Eero Ettala, Dustin Craven, Terje Haakonsen, JJ Thomas, and Kevin Pearce are all scheduled to be on hand to raise the city’s stoke level higher than its terrorist threat level for the first time since 9/11. Be there!