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 ...

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.

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 ...