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.

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 ...

Summertime and the living is, well, hot—which makes a roaring campfire a bit of a problem. But if you lay the right foundation, you can build a great summer blaze that puts out plenty of light with ...