Tasha Zemke is Outside magazine’s associate managing editor and a member of the Outside Online travel team. She's also an avid world traveler. Josh Drinkard always wanted to build his own cabin.

We construct and install 8 floor joists for the second floor, preparing to start building the roof. We share tips and tricks as we progress in our log cabin building project. #LogCabin #OffGrid #HandT ...

In this episode, we notch a couple more logs and begin constructing our front stairs using 2x10 dimension lumber for the stringers. A unique technique is employed for the steps by splitting short logs ...

Kalispell Middle School teacher Kris Schreiner helps, from left, Rowan Wisher, Gavin Baker and Cooper Pelc cut a saddle notch as Schreiner's eighth-grade history students construct a log cabin on ...

Puzzle boxes, not pastry, fill the antique pie safe in the corner. Pieces of the next-up puzzle cover the surface of a vintage farmhouse table. An even bigger puzzle surrounds all of this: an 1800s ...

QUINCY -- Friends of the Log Cabins Association will host a work day at the Log Cabin Village 8 a.m. to noon Saturday in preparation for Frontier Settlement Day, Saturday, Sept. 9. The Lincoln-era Log ...