Dub Paetz's Alone Season 11 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Alone Season 11 ended, including Dub Paetz's placement and days lasted.

Dub Paetz documented carved survival items and camp life on Instagram during and after his run on Alone Season 11, filmed in the Mackenzie River Delta near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, roughly 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle. He finished third out of ten, lasting 80 days before he left the show. The recorded reason was the compounding effects of starvation and isolation, and missing his family. That's four days behind runner-up Timber Cleghorn and four short of the three-month mark. His contestant page is here.

The full list

Item	What it's for
Swiss Army knife	Everyday cutting and fine camp tasks
Saw	Processing larger timber for shelter and fuel
Axe	Shelter building and heavier firewood work
Ferro rod	Fire starting
Fishing line and hooks	Food from the delta's river system
Snare wire	Passive small-game trapping
2-quart pot	Cooking and boiling water
Paracord	Shelter lashing and camp utility
Bow and arrows	Primary big-game hunting tool
Sleeping bag	Insulation through arctic nights

No brand or model is recorded for any of Paetz's ten items in the show's gear data. That puts him in the same boat as most of his Season 11 castmates. Only winner William Larkham Jr.'s loadout has specific products attached, like a Killingerblades Big Woody knife and a Silky Katanaboy 500 saw.

80 days on starvation's terms

Paetz's kit is nearly identical in shape to Cleghorn's: a knife instead of a multitool, the same cutting-tool pair, the same three food strategies (bow, snares, fishing line), and a sleeping bag and paracord rounding it out. The overlap isn't a coincidence. Season 11's cast leaned hard on a shared template of axe, saw, sleeping bag, and multiple food-gathering options, and it shows across the whole placement table. What separates an 80-day run from a longer one usually isn't the gear list, it's what the body can tolerate. Paetz made it further than seven of his nine competitors before starvation's cumulative effects, not any single gear failure, ended his season.

That's a distinction worth sitting with. A Swiss Army knife and a bow and arrows can keep someone fed and sheltered for months, but they can't manufacture calories the environment doesn't have. Paetz's carved-item habit, visible on his Instagram during and after filming, suggests someone who used downtime productively rather than someone whose gear was letting him down. The show's own account of his exit points to isolation and hunger wearing him down gradually, the same pattern that ends most long Alone runs regardless of what's in the ten-item bag.

What his run adds to the Season 11 record

Between Larkham's 84 days, Cleghorn's 83, and Paetz's 80, the top three of Season 11 finished within four days of each other, all carrying broadly similar gear. That tight spread argues against the idea that any one item decided the season. The snare wire and fishing line and hooks categories appear on nearly every Season 11 list, Paetz's included, because a fish-rich arctic delta rewards redundancy over specialization. For the season's full cast and how each of the ten fared, see the Season 11 gear roundup, and alone-rules covers the ten-item cap everyone on this list worked within.