Food in the deep camp is much better then in McMurdo. The ingredients the cooks have are the same, but cooking for 40 people is much easier then cooking for ~1000. Food tastes better and more real. Also being in the middle of an icesheet, living in tents and working outside a lot contributes to good appetite.
No wonder the galley is called an "oasis" WAIS style:
As I mentioned before the second largest Jamesway in the campe is for washing/laundry and recreation.
All the water we drink comes from the snow. There are melting tanks in the galley and in the rec tent. Every day we shovel several buckets to use for drinking, cooking and washing. And many of you asked about showers - we had great showers at WAIS:
Since a shower increases an "average" use of water, everyone is supposed to shovel three buckets of snow to replace the water after a shower. In reality, everyone is pretty good about checking the water levels in the tank and fills up the water on "as needed" basis.
And last but not least - the question I get the most about the "deep field" camp. How do we go to the toilet? There are outhouses in the camp - the good old style - a hole in the snow. They have styrofoam seats, which are amazingly warm. We also have "pee bottles" - regular Nalgene water bottles used for above mentioned purpose. They are extremely useful during the night in your tent - it is so much nicer to use a pee bottle, rather then go to a cold outhouse in the middle of the night (especially considering that my tent was in the last row of the tent city).
(You can see a row of outhouses on this picture)
Please feel free to ask me more questions about living situation at WAIS - I will be more then happy to answer them.
Thanks for reading!
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