Lodging and regional basecamps
Campsites, huts and occasional indoor basecamps across roughly 90 field days — the recovery, charging and data-offload points that keep daily publishing running.
- $13,500
- Estimated cost
- 12%
- Of the expedition target
- 1
- Published need
Why this line exists
Daily publishing needs a place to sit down, dry out, charge everything and push the day's files. Most nights are in the van; the budgeted indoor nights are the weather holds, the data offloads and the resets after a hard highland leg. This is the cheapest line that protects every other one.
When it is spent: Spent continuously through the field season, weighted toward the highland legs.
What it produces
- →A daily dispatch published from the field rather than months later
- →Fewer weather-forced cancellations, because holds are survivable
- →Files offloaded and backed up before the team moves to the next region
Inventory manifest
Every item bought, hired or paid for on this line, listed the way a field manifest lists it. Any single item can be sponsored on its own.
Manifest LODGING · Hot Springs expedition
Lodging and regional basecamps
Items
10
Campsite and mountain-hut fees
$4,300- HS-LOD-001Campsite nights70 night$2,800Sponsor this item
- HS-LOD-002Highland hut nights10 night$1,200Sponsor this item
- HS-LOD-003Hut association membership2 person$300Sponsor this item
Indoor basecamps for weather holds
$4,200- HS-LOD-004Guesthouse nightsStorm days, deep clean and full data offload20 night$3,800Sponsor this item
- HS-LOD-005Workspace and connectivity day passes8 day$400Sponsor this item
Food and provisioning
$3,800- HS-LOD-006Daily provisioning, two people90 day$3,420Sponsor this item
- HS-LOD-007Regional bulk resupply4 run$380Sponsor this item
Laundry, showers and resupply
$1,200- HS-LOD-008Laundry and shower facilities90 day$720Sponsor this item
- HS-LOD-009Camp gas and consumables12 ea$300Sponsor this item
- HS-LOD-010Van deep clean and servicing3 ea$180Sponsor this item
Prices are current estimates in USD and are reconciled against real invoices once spent. Sponsoring an item credits the sponsor against that line; it never buys an entry, a placement, a rating or a safety finding.
What a sponsor receives
- Named in the field-operations credits of the record
- Named in the daily dispatch series this line keeps running
- Logo and link on the contributors page and the funding line page
Sponsorship never buys an entry, a placement, a rating or a safety finding. Every credit is disclosed in the book, the archive and on the contributors page.
If this line is only partly funded
Underfunding this line shortens the season. Field days get cut from the end of the route, which means the last regions lose coverage.
Support in kind instead of cash
- ·Guesthouse or hotel nights along the route
- ·Campsite passes or hut memberships
- ·Food, provisioning or regional resupply support
Questions sponsors ask
Answered the same way we answer them by email.
Why pay for hotels at all with a camper?
Storm days and data offloads need power, warmth and connectivity. Roughly one night in five is indoors.
Is any of this holiday travel?
No. Nothing outside the documented route and field programme is funded from the project.
Other funding lines
The full hot-spring expedition target of $115,960 is costed across five groups of published needs.
Get the field dispatch
Short updates from the road while the survey is running: springs measured, access won or lost, weather, corrections and what the next leg costs. No selling, and you can leave at any time.
This survey runs on funded mileage.
Sponsors cover getting to sites, permissions and verified documentation. Editorial judgement and safety findings are never for sale.