You can sleep inside the shelter in bunks if you're lucky enough to arrive when camp is empty, otherwise you sleep in a tent outside in the cold. There are cooks at the camp, so you wake up to the smell of breakfast every morning. Getting ready to go outside for the day is alot of work all by itself. I wear 3 pairs of thermal underwear, a ski bib and a nice warm down parka. I don't always need all these clothes, but I bring them into the field in case of emergency.
Antarctic storms can come out of nowhere, and are quite dangerous.
The winds are so strong that they pick up snow off the surface and make a ground blizzard. We must always be prepared to stay out in the field to ride out the storm. Getting the sleds ready for transport. Photograph courtesy of Erik R. Venteris, The Ohio State University. Transportation to our field sites away from camp is by snowmobile.