to be very honest, the best mental health I’ve experienced in my life has been when I’m living out of a backpack or sea kayak with a group of students cooking and eating meals together, chatting all day, and sharing the awe and wonder of being out with the animals and stars
when I was doing this kind of work, we often had one clunky sat phone for 15 people for weeks and months on end and rarely had to use it. it was fine