The bag is so hot sometimes that you have to ventilate the tent well. This is the entire crew that was at UpC camp in 1997. In total there were 14 regular people with a couple of visitors. Because we worked on shifts, we rarely got to hang out together as a group like this. A lot of research groups don't have the luxury of a jamesway and live entirely out of their mountaineering tents.
Transportation is always the fun part of being in Antarctica.
The way that most field parties travel around the continent is by Twin Otter. These planes are owned and operated by a Canadian company called Ken Borek Air. When stationed permanently in a camp the most common way to travel around is by skidoo. There are a number of different types of skidoos for handling different types of jobs and there are an equal number of different sleds to attach to skidoos to haul a load. We also sometimes would just use our own skis to get around.