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 complete the final layers of logs for our log cabin walls, having hand-notched 17 courses. We raise our heaviest log to date, which will support a half-mezzanine on the second ...

While searching for a new home a few years ago, my wife and I toured a log cabin for rent in the mountains of western North Carolina. It was built with historic reclaimed wood, and the long, stacked ...