Just watched the Nova Scotia episode, certainly better than the recent spate of survival related rubbish, teddy bear et al.
Cody Lundin comes across strongly as a student of Mors Kochanski's works. Beret headwear, wandering around in two pairs of wool socks with no outer foot wear in the snow, making a super shelter (a Mors innovation and one of his key subjects; though not properly executed in the episode), quoting Mors survival mantra in the final scenes "The wilderness is neutral, it is neither for you nor against you” he clearly has a lot of his own research and notions too, such as mitochondria training etc which I’m interesting in looking into.
I've never come across the other instructor, Dave Canterbury though, anyone have any info on his background?
A few things seemed a little odd; why not make more use of the raft? flip it over and it would make a nice bed for example, and even on its own it would have made a great signal marker, and why shoot the flare out of the gun to ignite it, the one (and only) time I tried that it ricocheted off the floor and shot 150m across a field before lodging in a bramble bush! There after I've always dismantled them and used the contents of the flare to start fires (you can get more than one ignition from each flare that way too). Still, you can’t in all fairness question these decisions after the fact and from the comfort of your armchair, things that seem obvious at home don’t cross your mind so easily when you’re cold, hungry and tired
I also found the porcupine scene a little suspicious, does anyone else get the feeling it might have been staged (captive porcupine), I would put this sort of stunt past TV produces.
Sod it. Was looking forward to that. 
