Dave Nessia's Alone Season 3 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Dave Nessia's run on Alone Season 3 ended.

Dave Nessia, 49, from Salt Lake City, Utah, placed fourth in Alone Season 3, lasting 73 days in the Andean foothills of Argentine Patagonia before a medical evacuation ended his run: his blood pressure had fallen to a dangerously low 80/60. The incident occurred during a vision quest, and it happened despite Nessia having 33 halves of dried fish stored at the time, meaning he was pulled for a health reading rather than running out of food. Winner Zachary Fowler lasted until day 87, 14 days longer. Full season detail is on our Season 3 guide; Nessia's own page is here.

The full list

Nessia's ten items have no brand names recorded in our data, but several carry specific detail worth keeping alongside the category, including a bow loadout tuned with two different arrow point types.

Item	Brand / model	Why it mattered
Knife	Morakniv Companion	Daily cutting and food prep
Axe	Not recorded (medium felling axe / large hatchet)	Shelter building and firewood
Bow and arrows	Not recorded (4 broadhead points, 2 judo points)	Hunting both larger game and birds or small targets
Sleeping bag	Not recorded (-20F synthetic)	Warmth through 73 nights in Patagonian terrain
Tarp	Not recorded (clear poly, rain)	Weatherproof shelter cover
Frying pan	Not recorded (steel)	Cooking fish over an open fire
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
Fishing line and hooks	Not recorded (8 lb and 50 lb test, 25 hooks)	The food source that produced his 33 stored dried-fish halves
Emergency food rations	Not recorded	Backup calories
Emergency food rations	Not recorded	A second backup allotment

The primitive bow and arrows and frying pan pages cover how other contestants have used these categories, and the tarp page tracks the shelter setups that show up across the franchise, including Nessia's clear poly rain cover.

A dual-purpose bow and a working fish supply

Nessia's bow setup stands out for carrying two arrow point types, four broadhead points for larger game and two judo points, which are designed to snag on brush and are typically used for birds or small game rather than penetrating a deer-sized animal. That is a hedge most contestants do not bother recording in this level of detail, and it points to someone who planned for more than one kind of hunt.

His fishing line, in two test weights (8 lb and 50 lb), backed up a food strategy that was clearly working: 33 halves of dried fish in storage is a substantial reserve, more than enough to suggest his evacuation was a genuine medical event rather than a sign his gear or food plan had failed.

What his run says about the field

At 73 days, Nessia's fourth-place finish put him ahead of fifth-place Callie North's 72-day run by a single day, and well behind Megan Hanacek's 78 days in third. His medical pull, like Carleigh Fairchild's BMI-driven evacuation for the runner-up spot, is a reminder that the show's mandatory health thresholds can end a run regardless of how well a contestant's gear and food supply are actually holding up. Every contestant in the field worked within the same official rules allowing ten items, and Nessia's dried-fish reserve suggests his was working as intended right up until his body forced the stop.