Camp 3

Camp 3, also known as the Bargah Sevom refuge and camp, is a shelter at 4200m of altitude for people who are doing the Mt Damavand climb using the southern route. There is a camping ground and two buildings of which the newer one (the refuge of the Iranian Mountaineering Federation, completed in 2009) is more comfortable than the older one. "Comfort" is a relative term, because conditions even in the new refuge (see photos 5 and 6) are spartan.
The new refuge has one big community room with tables and chairs in the basement and a big dormitory with 60 beds on the first floor. The beds have no mattresses, just wooden planks. There are blankets, although most people use their sleeping bags. There is no kitchen for cooking stuff. People bring their gas bottles and kitchen utensils and cook their own food ín the dormitory. Toilets are very spartan: they are in a separate building outside and there is no water to flush in the toilets, only the black rubber pipe outside. The refuge has solar panels and in the sleeping rooms there are A/C sockets which can be used to recharge phones and other low power devices. The only water is the one outside the building, basically a pipe of black rubber through which ice cold water flows continuously. It's therefore impossible to take a shower in this place. The water however is probably drinkable.