Everything Jordan Jonas Carried to Win Alone Season 6

Spoiler note: this post covers who won Alone season 6 and how it happened.

Jordan Jonas won season 6 with 77 days on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake, and his gear list is one of the more interesting ones in the franchise because a single item on it, his recurve bow, ended up doing more work than almost any other pick in the show's history. Here's what he actually carried, item by item, based on his contestant page.

The full ten

Item	Why it mattered
Recurve bow and arrows	Killed a bull moose around day 20, the first big-game kill in the show's history
Axe/hatchet	Processing the moose and general camp wood work
Saw (identified as a Silky Katanaboy folding saw)	Shelter building
Sleeping bag, down, -40°F rated	Arctic-grade sleep system for a genuinely brutal location
Ferro rod	Fire starting
Fishing kit (line and hooks)	Backup protein once the moose meat ran low
Frying pan	Cooking the moose and any fish
Multitool (identified as a Leatherman Wave)	General utility
Paracord	Shelter lashing and gear repair
Snare wire	Small-game trapping, used later to kill a wolverine

The moose changed everything

About 20 days into his run, Jonas became the first contestant in the show's history to take down a big-game animal, killing a bull moose with his takedown recurve bow. Estimates on the animal's weight vary by source, somewhere between 400 and 900 pounds, but even at the conservative end that's several hundred pounds of meat landing in one contestant's camp while everyone else was still working line and hooks for small fish. That single kill gave Jonas a caloric cushion nobody else in that season had, and it's the reason his run gets cited constantly whenever people argue about whether the bow is worth one of your ten slots.

He didn't stop there either. Later in his stay he killed a wolverine with his axe, which is its own kind of remarkable given how notoriously aggressive and hard to approach wolverines are. Between the moose and ongoing fishing and trapping, Jonas built a food surplus that let him out-hunker the rest of the field rather than just out-suffer them.

Who he actually beat

Runner-up Woniya Thibeault made it 73 days before voluntarily tapping out via satellite phone, timed right before a scheduled medical check she believed would pull her anyway, after losing roughly a third of her body weight. She's worth remembering here for a second reason: she later came back and won the Frozen spinoff outright, a different season with a different format, but it's a good reminder that a runner-up finish doesn't mean someone's done with the franchise. Third-place finisher Nathan Donnelly made it to 72 days before his shelter caught fire and burned down overnight in sub-zero temperatures, forcing him to wait outside until rescue arrived at daybreak. That's one of the harder ways to lose a season, through no failure of skill or endurance at all.

Why his loadout is a useful reference point

If you're trying to understand how contestants think about their ten-item picks, Jonas's list is a clean example of a hunting-first strategy: bow over gill net, snare wire over a bigger cook pot, and a genuinely rated sleeping bag because the East Arm of Great Slave Lake sits about 120 kilometers south of the Arctic tree line, which is about as far from forgiving as this show's locations get. You can see how that same -40°F-class sleeping bag choice shows up again and again across the harshest seasons in our sleeping bag breakdown, and you can compare his full loadout against other winners on the gear database or check the axe and saw picks specifically on our best axe and best saw pages.

The takeaway from Jonas's season isn't really "bring a bow." Plenty of contestants bring bows and never connect with anything bigger than a bird. It's that when a hunting-focused strategy actually pays off, in an environment where big game exists and a contestant has the skill to take one down cleanly, it changes the entire shape of a season. Jonas had both the location and the skill lined up, and 77 days later that combination was worth $500,000.