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.

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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 ...