We show that for a local, discretely valued field $F$, with residue characteristic $p$, and a variety $𝒰$ over $F$, the map $\rho :\mathrm{Gal}(F^{\mathrm{sep}}/F)\to \mathrm{Out}\left({\pi }_{1,\mathrm{geom}}^{\left(p^{\text{'}}\right)}\right(𝒰\left)\right)$ to the outer automorphisms of the prime to $p$ geometric étale fundamental group of $𝒰$ maps the wild inertia onto a finite image. We show that under favourable conditions $\rho$ depends only on the reduction of $𝒰$ modulo a power of the maximal ideal of $F$. The proofs make use of the theory of logarithmic schemes.