We have completed the exciting task of notching our first logs for the log cabin build. This video showcases our experience using a log scribe and a curved chisel for the first time, revealing the ...

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.

Welcome to our Log Cabin Project! We are building a tiny log cabin from scratch using materials sourced from our land and relying entirely on hand tools (no chainsaw!). This off-grid cabin is ...

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 ...

There’s just something about log cabins that makes people want to pack all their earthly possessions and set up camp in one of these charming homes, usually close to nature—and away from the chaos of ...