Everything Ted Baird Carried to Win Alone Season 4

Spoiler note: this covers who won season 4 and how they got there.

Season 4, "Lost & Found," ran as a team format: seven pairs, siblings, parents and kids, one married couple, were dropped on Quatsino Territory, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Ted Baird and his brother Jim, freelance outdoorsmen from Toronto, were dropped separately and didn't reunite at their shared camp until day 10. Because the pair chose their gear as a linked team, Ted's ten items are identical to Jim's, whose own list is broken down on this site's Jim Baird post. What follows treats the list as Ted's own pick, since that's how it's recorded for him in our data, rather than restating Jim's write-up.

The ten items

Item	What he brought	Verified
Axe	Fiskars X15, painted orange	Yes
Bow and arrows	Samick Sage takedown recurve, 50+ lb draw	Yes
Fishing kit	20-lb and 50-lb monofilament, 30-lb braid, 25 hooks	Yes
Gill net	12' x 4'	Yes
Multitool	Leatherman Surge	Yes
Pot	Toaks titanium 2L with bail handle	Yes
Rations	2 lbs pemmican	Yes
Saw	Lynx 3' one-man crosscut saw	Yes
Snare wire	3.5 lbs of trapping wire	Yes
Tarp	12' x 12'	Yes

You can see it laid out the same way on Ted's own contestant page.

Two people, one list

The gear only makes sense once you remember two people were relying on it. A single 12x12 tarp and one crosscut saw are undersized for a solo camp but reasonable for a project like the canoe-style boat Ted and Jim built together to fish their lake, a build that is basically impossible alone but workable with two sets of hands and a saw meant for real cutting, not just kindling.

The gill net tells a similar story. It keeps working whether or not anyone is tending it, which freed up daylight for building, hunting, and managing the grind of a second month on the island. Add the heavier fishing line, 30-lb braid alongside the standard monofilament, and the pair had backup capacity built into the same category of gear rather than spreading their ten slots across more categories.

Where the team plan strained

None of this made the back half of the season easy. As supplies thinned into fall and winter, Ted and Jim leaned on scavenged limpets to stretch what they had, and tensions between the brothers frayed under the pressure without fully breaking. They beat the runner-up team, Pete and Sam Brockdorff, by a single day: the Brockdorffs tapped out jointly at day 74 after Pete developed severe GERD from prolonged food deprivation. Third place went to Dave and Brooke Whipple, who tapped out jointly at day 49 once Brooke reached exhaustion and mental fatigue. Ted and Jim held on to day 75 and split the season's $500,000 prize, becoming the first Canadians to win the show.

Comparing Ted's and Jim's identical lists side by side is really a study in what a shared list has to account for that a solo list doesn't: fewer individual redundancies, but bigger tools built for two-person projects. For how that compares to a standard solo winner's kit, David McIntyre's season 2 list was filmed on nearly the same stretch of Vancouver Island two years earlier, minus the team format.

For the official rules on prize splits and item limits across formats, see alone-rules, and the rest of the field's winning gear is rounded up on the winners page.