Woodchuck

"He was probably the healthiest-looking person I'd ever seen, tall and muscular without an ounce of fat on him. This was extremely evident to me, as he was wearing only a loincloth."

- Benjamin Ripley describing Woodchuck Wallace in Spy Camp

"Woodchuck" Wallace is the survival course instructor at Spy Camp. Lessons from him are rare and reserved for the best students. He often stays in the wild for long periods, making his own clothes and food. He operated in Operation Snow Bunny, posing as the ski teacher for Ben, the spies, and Jessica Shang.

Appearance & Personality
Woodchuck has piercing green eyes and a closely cropped beard. He is darkly tanned and smells like pine needles. His typical wilderness attire consists of a bearskin cloak, homemade moccasins, and a buckskin loincloth. He likes anything to do with wilderness, almost too much, as he first appeared in Spy Camp wearing a loincloth while holding a dried piece of opossum meat. He believes that phones are useless. He also occasionally jumps off porches and swings on branches like a monkey.

Skills & Abilities
Woodchuck is superb at anything to do with outdoor survival. According to Ben in Spy School Secret Service, it takes Woodchuck five minutes to start a fire, although Ben, despite having a lot of wilderness training from Woodchuck, takes forty-five minutes to start a fire. Woodchuck seems to be prepared for anything relating to nature, as in Spy Ski School, he knows how to swim in icy water and how to avoid hypothermia while doing it. Also in Spy Ski School, we see that he is a great skier while giving lessons to the kids.

Missions
Woodchuck has operated in two missions over the course of the Spy School series:


 * 1) Operation Angry Jackal
 * 2) Operation Snow Bunny

Trivia

 * In Spy Camp, he throws a six-inch hunting knife and pins a mosquito by the wings on a wooden post from forty feet away.
 * He has graduated from Spy School.
 * He may have worked with Nathan Kagan, the Academy's survival skills professor, before.
 * He made a report on the Climax Mine when he was at Spy Schoo l.