
During my first three years out of high school, I spent several months each winter living in a tent.
One winter I did a solid three months, January-March with no days back in town.
The tents, usually 14×16 feet in size, made up the camps from which we cut survey lines or did geophysics for mineral exploration.
Since the camps were typically fly-in, with high costs for transporting gear, the weight and volume of our equipment was kept to a minimum.