Winter Bushcraft: 2 Swedish Stoves & Camp Bread in Rain and Snow

Winter bushcraft camping at Twin Lakes and Church Mountain in Washington's Mt. Baker area — snow, rain, a blizzard, and three ways to make a Swedish torch. Ivie and I drove the Jeep up the forest service road to Twin Lakes, and it was absolutely beautiful under snow. We checked a couple of campsites, but they were about 200 feet from where you can park — too far to haul gear — so we headed to Church Mountain, less than an hour away. Coming back down, the weather flipped fast: snow turned to rain as we descended, and we set up camp at West Church Mountain in the rain. From there it's all camp life: foraging for firewood with my new Stihl 032 chainsaw, cutting and piling wood, and some bushcraft — including two styles of wooden mallet made with a Scotch auger. I show three ways to make a Swedish torch: with an auger, with a chainsaw, and with a drill motor — and light one up to show how fast it turns into a fierce cooking stove, boiling a pot of water in no time. Dinner is a feast: Ivie fries fish over a big open fire while I cook a ribeye steak with grilled vegetables and caramelized onions on my scottle grill, then bake bread in the Dutch oven. The next morning we forage deeper into the wilderness, drop a 40-foot tree, and tow it back to camp behind the Jeep for firewood. Our three-season tent and buddy heater kept us warm but not dry, so we stayed an extra night and set up the hot tent with its wood-burning stove — just as a blizzard rolled into camp. Camp biscuits, a toasty morning in the hot tent, and then we put out the fire, said our goodbyes, and drove back down the mountain. Shot with drone footage, GoPro, and plenty of time by the fire. Which Swedish torch method would you try — auger, chainsaw, or drill? Let me know in the comments. My rainy overnight at Chehalis Lake:    • A Jeep, A storm and a Fire I Almost Couldn...   Subscribe for more Jeep overlanding, bushcraft, and camp cooking from BC and the Cascades. Timestamps 0:00 Setting off in search of snow 0:17 Twin Lakes: beautiful, but too far from the car 1:01 Firewood and the mallet I left behind 2:04 Mixing camp bread dough 3:12 Dinner: ribeye, caramelized onions, and the Swedish stove 4:09 Midnight snow and the Jeep log haul 6:05 Staying another night, and the hot tent decision 6:56 Swedish stove demo: the Scotch auger 8:43 The chainsaw method 10:55 Lighting it: cotton, Vaseline, and a ferro rod 12:18 Baking bread in the Dutch oven 14:29 Building and lighting a chainsaw stove 17:08 Morning in the hot tent 18:00 Scottle grill, bacon, and camp coffee 19:01 Camp biscuits 20:47 Third method: the drill-powered auger 22:31 Packing up and putting out the fire