[Sami Luhtanen flat backside NosePress to back Lip on a rail whose angle inversely represented the temperature of the day. Photos: Matt Georges. Words: Bruno Rivoire]
Matt Georges and Bruno Rivoire shadowed the Vans Euro team as they journeyed into the long, dark night of the Finnish Christmas soul…
It’s literally pouring down with rain, and we’re at what looks like a motorway services area. The ground is covered in wet snow, and a drunk man shouts at us before collapsing in the mud. A group of Japanese tourists walk out of a fast-food restaurant, all wearing blue suits with Lapland North Expedition on the front. They remind us that this isn’t just another suburb.
A few weeks before that, we had the idea to do a bit of snowboarding during December, obviously without taking into account the global warming effect, which pushed us above the Arctic Circle to Lapland, in the North of Finland. Therefore, we can say that it’s by accident that the crème de la crème of jibbers from the Vans team landed in Rovaniemi, the ‘official town of Santa Claus’…

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