Well, by the time this post goes live, this is old news, as they have already come and gone. But one of my janitorial tasks in the early weeks of the season was to (with the help of some fabulous volunteers)...
...go out to "summer camp"--an area of additional housing in the backyard of the station where there are several hypertats set up to accommodate overflow when the 150-person capacity of the main station is exceeded (yes, that's an outhouse you see on the left side of the frame)--
...and make up beds for half-a-dozen Russian millionaire oligarchs who were transiting through Pole on their way to the Russian station Vostok (where the coldest temps on the planet have been recorded), which they are considering investing in rebuilding. I was actually pretty impressed with how clean and cozy the inside of the hypertats are, but I doubt it was up to oligarch standards, even though I left cookies on their pillows.
And then after they left, I got out one of the sleds that are kept under the stairs of the main station and used it to haul the dirty sheets back to the station for washing. Who needs sled dogs?!?!
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