I prefer survivorman also, but Im not about to call bear a fake. I sure as heck know that I would never chomp down on a grub the size of my thumb or toss some worms in my mouth.

I believe they said that he stayed in a hotel room sometime during the sierra nevada episode correct? My guess would be that they dropped him somewhere in the mountains, he walked to the bottom of the hill, and there just happned to be a lodge there.

Remember it is just a tv show. They probably didnt have enough footage to create an episode, otherwise thats how they would have ended the show, with him finding the lodge.

But I mean how could you not have known that some of it was going to be set up when they said the camera crew was going to be following him at the beginning of the series?