Jacks Genega's Alone Season 13 Gear List: All 10 Items

Note: Alone Season 13, the show's first international World Championship edition, was still airing when this was written, and Jacks Genega's placement had not yet been recorded in the sourced data.

Jacks Genega is a wilderness skills educator from New York who traded a career as a video editor for van life and now runs his own bushcraft school. He's one of ten contestants pulled from seven countries for Season 13, the franchise's first head-to-head international cast. Genega's own page has more on his background, and our Season 13 guide covers the full field. One sourcing note: season 13 gear lists so far come from a single detailed piece of pre-season coverage rather than multiple confirmed sources, so treat the specifics as reported until the season fills in the record.

The full list

Item	Category	Notes
Ferro rod	Fire starting	Brand not recorded
Fishing line and hooks	Fishing	Brand not recorded
Snare wire	Trapping	Brand not recorded
Sleeping bag	Sleep system	Brand not recorded
Cooking pot	Cooking	Brand not recorded
Paracord	Utility	Brand not recorded
Ax	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Saw	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Multitool	Utility	Brand not recorded
Bow and arrows	Hunting	Brand not recorded

This is a fully sourced list of ten categories, but none of Genega's items carry a specific brand or model in the underlying research. Where a brand isn't recorded, it's stated plainly rather than guessed. For a closer look at the categories, see the ferro rod, axe, and saw pages.

What the list says about his plan

Genega's ten picks cover every standard category the show's format rewards: both cutting tools (axe and saw), a full food plan (bow, fishing kit, snare wire), a complete fire and shelter setup (ferro rod, sleeping bag, pot), and paracord and a multitool for everything in between. There's no gap and no specialization built around a single skill, which fits someone who teaches wilderness skills broadly rather than one discipline. A bushcraft school curriculum tends to cover fire, shelter, food, and tools as a full system, not a single specialty, and his gear list mirrors that generalist approach.

Coming from a background as a video editor before switching to van life and teaching, Genega represents one of the more unconventional career paths in the Season 13 cast. His gear choices don't hedge that background one way or another; they're the same balanced core that shows up on the majority of recorded Alone lists, winners included.

How it compares across the field

Season 13 pulled ten contestants from Canada, the United States, Australia, Slovenia, Portugal, Wales, and New Zealand. As of the most recent recorded data, only two placements were logged: Dave Booth (ninth, 4 days) and David Young (tenth, 3 days), both eliminated in the season's first week. Genega and seven others, spanning the rest of the international field, had no recorded outcome yet.

Across the 101 of 187 Alone contestants who have a recorded gear list at all, Genega's exact combination (axe, saw, bow, fishing kit, snare wire, sleeping bag, pot, multitool, paracord, ferro rod) is the single most common ten-item spread in the data, the closest thing to a default loadout the show has. For the official rules on gear selection, see alone-rules, and for how the rest of the recorded cast built their kits, the full Season 13 gear roundup has the complete list.