James "Wyatt" Black's Alone Season 10 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Alone Season 10 ended for James "Wyatt" Black.

James "Wyatt" Black lasted 64 days at Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan before tapping out, telling producers he felt his journey was complete. That put him in second place, two days behind winner Alan Tenta, in a season with the coldest, most northern setting the show had used to that point. Black's own page has more on his run, and our Season 10 guide covers the full field of ten.

Black came into the season as an outlier on paper. He owns a home-renovation business, Maple Creek Renovations, and holds a patent on the "Gold Fury" fishing lure line, but he was the only contestant that season without formal survivalist or trapper training. His gear list doesn't carry brand names in the recorded data, only the ten categories he picked, but the picks themselves tell you where his confidence was.

The full list

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

This is a fully sourced list of ten categories, but none of Black's items carry a specific brand or model in the underlying research, unlike winner Alan Tenta's list, where several items (a Hults Bruk trekking hatchet, a Silky Katanaboy 500) were confirmed down to the product. Where a brand isn't recorded, it's stated plainly here rather than guessed. For a closer look at the categories themselves, see the axe, ferro rod, bow and arrows, and snare wire pages.

What the list says about his run

Black's ten items lean toward the same balanced core that shows up across most of the Season 10 cast: an axe and saw for shelter and fuel, a fishing kit and bow for food, snare wire as a trapping backup, and a sleeping bag built for a genuinely cold location. Nothing about the list looks improvised for someone without survivalist training. Instead it reads like a practical hedge, covering fishing (his own area of expertise, given the lure patent), hunting, and trapping all at once so no single failure point could end his run early.

That balance held up. Sixty-four days is a long run by the show's standards, and Black outlasted eight of the ten Season 10 contestants, only Tenta went longer. His gear choices didn't need to be exotic to get him there; the fundamentals executed for two months did the work.

How it compares across the season

Season 10's placements dropped off fast after second place: third-place Mikey Helton lasted 55 days, but by fifth place Tarcisio "Taz" Ramos Dos Santos was already down to 40, and the back half of the field cleared 20 days or fewer. Across the 101 of 187 Alone contestants who have a recorded gear list at all, the mix Black carried (axe, saw, bow, fishing kit, snare wire, sleeping bag, pot, multitool, paracord, ferro rod) is close to the standard 10-item loadout the show's rules push contestants toward, not a specialist's list built around one skill.

If you want to compare Black's picks against the winner's, Alan Tenta's full gear breakdown is on the site, along with who else was recorded across the whole season. For the rules every contestant, Black included, had to pick within, see alone-rules.