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Dan Wheeler spent ten years sleeping in tents on his riverfront property before building anything permanent. The software engineer bought the land along Washington's Wenatchee River in 2010, drawn by years of rafting trips with friends through the area's rushing waters. Every camping trip reinforced what he already knew: this spot needed something, but only
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