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Fjällräven

n 1950, 14 year old Swede Åke Nordin wanted to go fishing. He was a boy who loved nature, who dreamed of one day becoming a true Arctic fox, a fjällräven, as the Swedes call experienced Scandinavian adventurers. Each summer, Åke and the Nordin family would spend months at a small cabin outside Örnsköldsvik, in the country’s north. That particular summer, Åke and his friend Lars Olof decided to head west from the village to go trout

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