Jacques Turcotte's Alone Season 9 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Season 9 ended and where Jacques Turcotte finished.

Jacques Turcotte was the youngest contestant on Season 9 at 23, a glacier guide from Juneau, Alaska specializing in ice climbing. His cold-terrain experience was real, but his run ended after 15 days, missing his family, placing him tenth out of the ten who started. His full contestant profile has more on his background; he later married his girlfriend Catherine shortly after the season aired.

Fifteen days is the shortest run recorded among this manifest's cast, well behind winner Juan Pablo Quiñonez's 78 days, on the same stretch of Big River in northern Labrador that demanded patience and a long runway before food-gathering routines paid off.

The full list

Item	Brand/model	Notes
Sleeping bag	Not recorded	Insulation for the boreal cold
Axe	Not recorded	Shelter building and firewood
Knife	Not recorded	General cutting tasks
Multitool	Not recorded	General repair
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
Bow and arrows	Not recorded	Hunting
Trapping wire	Not recorded	Small-game snares
Fishing line and hooks	Not recorded	Protein source
2-quart pot	Not recorded	Cooking and water
Emergency rations	Not recorded	Starter food buffer

No brand or model is publicly recorded for any of Turcotte's ten items, and the source data lists his cutting tool simply as "Knife" without specifying which category, so it is left unlinked here rather than guessed at. Otherwise his list covers the same bases most of the cast chose: a bow, fishing line and hooks, and trapping wire for three food-gathering methods, plus emergency rations as an early cushion. You can see how his food-gathering choices compare to the rest of the field on the bow and arrows, fishing line and hooks, and emergency rations pages.

What the list says about his run

Turcotte's list is not thin. It has the same core categories that carried other Season 9 contestants past 60 days, so the gear itself was not what limited his run to 15 days. Missing his family is the same reason that ended Jordon Bell's run on a different season and Teimojin Tan's run on this one, and it is a reminder that a young contestant with genuine cold-weather skill can still find two weeks of total isolation harder to sustain than a veteran with less technical experience but more mental preparation for the specific loneliness the show creates.

Season 9 in context

Turcotte's 15 days is the shortest of the ten runs recorded for Season 9, a season where the top three finishers all cleared 60 days. That spread, from 15 to 78 days on the same terrain with largely similar gear, shows how much of this show's outcome comes down to mindset rather than equipment. For the complete comparison of what every recorded contestant that season carried, our Season 9 gear roundup has the full breakdown, and alone-rules covers the ten-item cap every contestant, Turcotte included, worked within.

Every one of Season 9's ten contestants, Turcotte included, has a fully sourced ten-item list, which puts this season above the franchise's overall documentation rate. Across all 19 recorded seasons and spinoffs, only 101 of 187 total contestants have a recorded gear list at all, so this level of completeness is closer to the exception than the rule for the show's full history.