Dusty Blake's Alone Season 11 Gear List: All 10 Items

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

Dusty Blake posts survival content on the YouTube channel "Dusty Blake Wildman Adventures." On Alone Season 11, filmed in the Mackenzie River Delta near Inuvik, Northwest Territories, roughly 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle, he lasted 10 days before leaving due to severe gastric pain, placing eighth out of ten. His contestant page is here.

The full list

Item	What it's for
Axe	Shelter building and firewood processing
Saw	Cutting larger timber for shelter and fuel
Ferro rod	Fire starting
Multitool	General repair and small camp tasks
Fishing line and hooks	Food from the delta's river system
Paracord	Shelter lashing and camp utility
Pot	Cooking and boiling water
Snare wire	Passive small-game trapping
Bow and arrows	Primary big-game hunting tool
Sleeping bag	Insulation through arctic nights

No brand or model is recorded for any of Blake's ten items. His list follows the season's most common template almost exactly: axe and saw for wood, bow and snare wire and fishing line for food, sleeping bag and pot and paracord for baseline survival, the same core shape carried by Jake Messinger and several others in the field.

Ten days on a standard kit

Blake's gear choices don't deviate from what worked for the contestants who lasted much longer. Runner-up Timber Cleghorn carried nearly the identical set of ten categories and made it 83 days. That gap is the clearest evidence in the whole Season 11 field that gear selection and survival duration aren't tightly linked once a contestant clears the baseline of having functional cutting tools, fire, shelter material, and multiple food options. Blake had all of that. What ended his run was severe gastric pain, a physical breakdown that no combination of ten items could have prevented or treated in the field.

Ten days placed him ahead of only Peter Albano's 8-day run and Cubby Hoover's 4, making him one of the season's four fastest exits. Gastric issues, alongside chest pains and bowel obstructions, were a recurring theme among Season 11's early departures, more common in this cast than the starvation-driven exits that ended the top three contestants' runs much later.

What the list says about his run

There's nothing in Blake's gear list that flags a mistake. Axe, saw, ferro rod, and paracord cover the fundamentals, while the bow, snare wire, and fishing line combination gave him the same three-pronged food strategy that carried other contestants past 80 days. His run is a clean example of how a physically standard kit can still end early for reasons entirely outside a contestant's control. For a look at how longer Season 11 runs used a similar gear base, see Timber Cleghorn's 83-day list, and alone-rules covers the official ten-item cap every contestant, Blake included, worked within. The axe and saw pages break down how those two categories perform across the wider franchise.

It's worth noting that Blake's YouTube survival channel didn't translate into a longer run than some castmates with less public outdoor profile. Season 11's top three finishers, Larkham (commercial fisherman, hunter, and trapper), Cleghorn (survivalist and humanitarian aid worker), and Paetz, all had backgrounds that mapped closely onto the delta environment's demands. Blake's tenth-place finish at 10 days shows that documenting survival content doesn't guarantee the same result as a professional background built directly around the skills the show tests.