Dave Booth's Alone Season 13 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Alone Season 13 ended for Dave Booth.

Dave Booth, a retired Alaska school principal and 23-year professional fishing guide from Palmer, Alaska, placed ninth of ten in Season 13, the show's first international "World Championship" edition. He lasted 4 days in the Richardson Mountains near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, before tapping out. Booth's own page has more on his run, and our Season 13 guide covers the full field, which pulled contestants from seven countries for the first time in the franchise's history. 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
Cooking pot	Cooking	Brand not recorded
Sleeping bag	Sleep system	Brand not recorded
Bow and arrows	Hunting	Brand not recorded
Multitool	Utility	Brand not recorded
Axe	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Saw	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Fishing line and hooks	Fishing	Brand not recorded
Ferro rod	Fire starting	The item at the center of his elimination
Paracord	Utility	Brand not recorded
Snare wire	Trapping	Brand not recorded

This is a fully sourced list of ten categories, but none of Booth'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 fire-starting gear specifically, see the ferro rod page, along with axe and bow and arrows.

What went wrong

Booth lost his primary fire on day 1, a rough start in any Alone season but especially in the cold, wet conditions of the Richardson Mountains. He kept working, and by day 4 he had just harvested a 40-pound beaver, a real food win this early in a run. Then he accidentally dropped his ferro rod into the fire and burned it, leaving him with no reliable way to start a flame in wet conditions. With food secured but no path to cook it or stay warm, he tapped out.

It's a reminder that a ten-item list is only as strong as its weakest single point of failure. Booth's list had solid coverage across hunting, fishing, cutting, and trapping, but fire starting came down to one tool, and losing it ended his run regardless of how well the rest of his kit was working. His 28-year background as a teacher and principal, plus decades guiding fishing trips, clearly supported the hunting and fishing side of his gear plan; the beaver harvest proves that. The fire-starting failure was bad luck compounding an already rough first day, not a gap in preparation.

How it compares across the field

Season 13 was still airing when this was written, with only two of ten contestants eliminated in the recorded data: Booth at 4 days (ninth place) and David Young at 3 days (tenth place), also citing difficulties early in the run. The other eight contestants, drawn from Canada, Australia, the United States, Slovenia, Portugal, Wales, and New Zealand, had no placement or elimination recorded yet as of the most recent data pull.

Across the 101 of 187 Alone contestants who have a recorded gear list at all, Booth's mix (pot, sleeping bag, bow, multitool, axe, saw, fishing kit, ferro rod, paracord, snare wire) matches the standard 10-item spread most contestants pick, the same categories that show up on most winning lists too. The list wasn't the problem here. For the official constraints every contestant works within, see alone-rules, and for the show's international format twist, our Season 13 guide has the full breakdown.