Adam Riley's Alone Season 9 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Season 9 ended and where Adam Riley finished.

Adam Riley is a custom treehouse builder and alpaca shearer from Fayetteville, Arkansas who had already completed an expedition across the Northwest Passage before stepping onto Season 9. That combination of hands-on building skill and cold-weather expedition experience made him a strong pick on paper, and he backed it up with a 52-day run before tapping out from starvation, finishing fourth. His full contestant profile has more on his background.

Fourth place put him behind the season's top three, winner Juan Pablo Quiñonez (78 days), runner-up Karie Lee Knoke (75 days), and third-place Teimojin Tan (63 days), but well clear of the rest of the cast. His run took place on the same Big River stretch in northern Labrador that demanded consistent calorie management from everyone in the cast.

The full list

Item	Brand/model	Notes
Sleeping bag	Not recorded	Insulation for the boreal cold
12x12 tarp	Not recorded	Shelter covering, unusually large for this season
Axe	Not recorded	Shelter building and firewood
Folding saw	Not recorded	Timber processing alongside the axe
Multitool	Not recorded	General repair
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
Fishing line and hooks	Not recorded	Protein source
2-quart pot	Not recorded	Cooking and water
Trapping wire	Not recorded	Small-game snares
Bow and arrows	Not recorded	Hunting

Riley's list stands out for two choices most of his season's cast did not make: a 12x12 tarp alongside a full axe-and-saw pairing. Carrying both a tarp and two separate cutting tools left him with fewer slots for extras, which likely reflects a treehouse builder's instinct to over-invest in shelter reliability rather than spread items thin. No brand or model is publicly recorded for any of his ten items. You can see how his shelter and cutting choices compare to the rest of the field on the tarp, axe, and saw pages.

What the list says about his run

Fifty-two days is a solid middle-of-the-pack result for this season, well ahead of the contestants who tapped out in the first three weeks, but short of the top three who all cleared 60 days. His tap-out reason, starvation, points to the same challenge that eventually caught even the runner-up: Big River's fish runs and game density were not generous enough to support every contestant indefinitely, no matter how solid the shelter and fire setup was. The extra weight of a large tarp and two cutting tools, useful for shelter durability, may have come at the cost of carrying additional dedicated food-gathering gear that could have stretched his run further.

Season 9 in context

Riley's fourth-place finish sits just behind a top three that all cleared 60 days, one of the tighter top-tier clusters in the show's history. For the full comparison of what every recorded Season 9 contestant carried, our Season 9 gear roundup has the complete list, and alone-rules covers the ten-item limit and category restrictions every contestant, Riley included, worked within.