Learn how to build a log cabin from trees on a budget using local materials, traditional hand tools, and hard work while embracing the land. Living in a cozy little cabin nestled in the woods is part ...

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 ...

In this episode, we build the full structure of our front porch roof using logs sourced from our land. We cut several trees and utilized already-downed trees, peeling the logs and creating necessary ...

In this episode, we fell one of the tallest trees so far, resulting in two solid logs. The larger log was too heavy to lift, so we rolled it on discarded ends of logs. In November, we worked hard to ...

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.

She’s the gregarious one. He’s the strong silent type. They met through the Appalachian Trail. Their first date was a hike to the Pinnacle in Albany Township. That’s where Cindy Ross, at 27, said she ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado ” Along with composting chips from dead lodgepole at the landfill, turning them into pellets for fuel in Kremmling and lathing logs, another Summit County resident has found a ...

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 ...