Aaron Barnard's Alone Season 13 Gear List: All 10 Items

Note: Alone Season 13, the show's first international World Championship edition, was still airing when this was written, and Aaron Barnard's placement had not yet been recorded in the sourced data.

Aaron Barnard is a tradesman from Prince George, British Columbia, raised on a hobby farm, one of two Canadians in a cast built for the first time from seven countries rather than one. He's competing in honor of his friend Travis, who died in a rafting accident. Barnard's own page has more on his background, and our Season 13 guide covers the full international field. One sourcing note: season 13 gear lists so far come from a single detailed piece of pre-season coverage rather than multiple confirmed sources, so treat the specifics as reported until the season fills in the record.

The full list

Item	Category	Notes
Sleeping bag	Sleep system	Brand not recorded
Ax	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Saw	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Bow and arrows	Hunting	Brand not recorded
Multitool	Utility	Brand not recorded
Paracord	Utility	Brand not recorded
Snare wire	Trapping	Brand not recorded
Cooking pot	Cooking	Brand not recorded
Ferro rod	Fire starting	Brand not recorded
Fishing line and hooks	Fishing	Brand not recorded

This is a fully sourced list of ten categories, but none of Barnard's items carry a specific brand or model in the underlying research. Where a brand isn't recorded, it's stated plainly rather than guessed. For a closer look at the categories, see the axe, saw, and bow and arrows pages.

What the list says about his plan

Barnard's ten items are close to a textbook standard loadout: an axe and saw for shelter and firewood, a bow and fishing kit for two separate food sources, snare wire as a trapping backup, and a full fire-and-shelter kit rounding things out. There's no specialist pick here built around one particular skill, no gill net swapped in for the fishing kit, no extra cutting tool doubled up. As a tradesman rather than a career survivalist, that balanced spread reads like a sensible hedge, covering hunting, fishing, and trapping all at once so no single skill gap could sink the run early.

Barnard is one of two Canadians in the Season 13 cast, alongside eventual placements still being determined for the rest of the field. The personal stakes he's carrying into the location, competing in memory of a friend, aren't reflected in any single item on the list, but they're part of the context the show built around this particular season's international format.

How it compares across the field

Season 13 pulled ten contestants from Canada, the United States, Australia, Slovenia, Portugal, Wales, and New Zealand for the franchise's first head-to-head World Championship. As of the most recent recorded data, only two of the ten had a placement logged: Dave Booth (ninth, 4 days) and David Young (tenth, 3 days), both eliminated early. The other eight, Barnard included, had no recorded outcome yet.

Across the 101 of 187 Alone contestants who have a recorded gear list at all, Barnard's mix (axe, saw, bow, fishing kit, snare wire, sleeping bag, pot, multitool, paracord, ferro rod) is about as close to the standard 10-item spread as the data gets, the same core categories that show up on most winning lists too. For the official rules every contestant, Barnard included, had to pick within, see alone-rules. For a season-wide look at who else brought what, the full Season 13 gear roundup covers the whole recorded field.