In tents Going camping this summer? Here are some tips on what to look for in a portable abode

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I SPENT A SLEEPLESS night many years ago squashed between two very large Americans in a one-person pup tent on a 5,000-metre Himalayan mountain slope. Another time, I passed the wee hours in an Ontario campground sloshing water out of my tent while my traumatized three-year-old daughter howled about her soggy sleeping bag and the thunderstorm that was crashing around us. And, on a Lake Superior canoe trip, I huddled miserably from midnight till dusk in a cranny of boulders and logs after a windstorm toppled my tent.