Cubby Hoover's Alone Season 11 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Alone Season 11 ended for Cubby Hoover.

Cubby Hoover's run in the Mackenzie River Delta, roughly 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle, ended faster than anyone else's in the field. He tapped out on day 4, the first contestant eliminated that season, after suffering a deep arrow wound to his leg. His placement was tenth out of ten. Hoover's own page has more on his run, and our Season 11 guide covers the full field, including winner William Larkham Jr., who outlasted the other nine for 84 days.

The full list

Item	Category	Notes
Bow and arrows	Hunting	Brand not recorded; the source of his injury
Axe	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Saw	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Sleeping bag	Sleep system	Brand not recorded
2-quart pot	Cooking	Brand not recorded
Ferro rod	Fire starting	Brand not recorded
Paracord	Utility	Brand not recorded
Multitool	Utility	Brand not recorded
Fishing line and hooks	Fishing	Brand not recorded
Snare wire	Trapping	Brand not recorded

This is a fully sourced list of ten categories, but none of Hoover'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 bow and arrows, axe, and ferro rod pages.

What went wrong

Hoover's ten items read as a standard, well-rounded loadout for the location: an axe and saw for shelter and firewood in cold country, a bow and fishing kit for food, snare wire as a trapping backup, and a sleeping bag suited to a genuinely brutal Arctic Circle winter. Nothing about the list looks like a mistake on paper. The problem wasn't the gear he chose, it was an accident with the bow itself. A deep arrow wound to the leg is the kind of injury no amount of category planning prevents, and it forced him out before he had a chance to build a shelter, set a trap line, or do much of anything with the rest of his kit.

That makes Hoover an outlier in a season where most eliminations came from prolonged hunger and isolation rather than a single acute injury. Runner-up Timber Cleghorn made it 83 days before voluntarily withdrawing, and even ninth-place Peter Albano lasted 8 days, twice as long as Hoover's run. His gear never really got tested.

How it compares across the season

Season 11's placements dropped off gradually from the top: William Larkham Jr. won at 84 days, Cleghorn was two behind him at 83, and Dub Paetz took third at 80 days after the effects of starvation and isolation caught up with him. From fourth place down, the numbers fall off fast, Sarah Poynter at 42 days, Isaiah Tuck at 23, and by eighth place Dusty Blake was already down to 10. Hoover's 4 days sits at the very bottom of that curve.

Across the 101 of 187 Alone contestants who have a recorded gear list at all, Hoover's mix (bow, axe, saw, fishing kit, snare wire, sleeping bag, pot, multitool, paracord, ferro rod) is close to the standard 10-item spread the show's rules push contestants toward, not a specialist's list. It's the same core category mix that shows up on most winning lists too, which is part of why his early exit reads as bad luck with the bow rather than a bad gear plan.

If you want to compare his picks against how the season's winner built his kit, William Larkham Jr.'s full gear breakdown is on the site, and alone-rules covers the official constraints every contestant, Hoover included, had to work within. For where the show currently airs, see where-to-watch.