Jessie Krebs's Alone Season 9 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Season 9 ended and where Jessie Krebs finished.

Jessie Krebs is a former U.S. Air Force SERE (survival) instructor from Pagosa Springs, Colorado who founded O.W.L.S., a program teaching wilderness survival skills to women. Few contestants arrive at Season 9 with a more directly relevant professional background, and her gear list reflects that expertise: a wider mix of categories than most of her castmates carried, including two dedicated cutting tools and a seasoning item. She lasted 46 days before being medically evacuated for stomach inflammation, finishing fifth. Her full contestant profile has more on her background.

Fifth place put her behind winner Juan Pablo Quiñonez (78 days), runner-up Karie Lee Knoke (75 days), third-place Teimojin Tan (63 days), and fourth-place Adam Riley (52 days), on the same stretch of Big River in northern Labrador that punished the entire cast with cold, wet conditions.

The full list

Item	Brand/model	Notes
Sleeping bag	Not recorded	Insulation for the boreal cold
Multitool	Not recorded	General repair
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
Trapping wire	Not recorded	Small-game snares
Saw	Not recorded	Timber processing
Salt	Not recorded	Food preservation and seasoning
2-quart pot	Not recorded	Cooking and water
Machete	Not recorded	Clearing and heavier cutting work
Paracord	Not recorded	Shelter lashing and utility cordage
Bow and arrows	Not recorded	Hunting

Krebs's list is one of the more distinctive in this season's cast. Carrying both a saw and a machete gave her two separate heavy-cutting options instead of the axe-and-saw pairing most other contestants chose, and salt is a rare pick across the whole franchise, useful for preserving meat and making a limited diet more palatable over a long stretch. No brand or model is publicly recorded for any of her ten items. You can see how her cutting-tool choices compare to the rest of the field on the saw and machete pages, and how the salt pick stacks up on the salt block page.

What the list says about her run

An ending via medical evacuation for stomach inflammation is a reminder that even a well-rounded, expertly chosen kit cannot fully control for a body's response to a limited, foraged diet over 46 days. Her SERE background likely shaped some of the less common choices here, the machete for clearing and general utility, salt as a food-quality lever, that a less experienced contestant might not have prioritized within a strict ten-item limit. The trade-off of carrying a machete alongside a saw, rather than a bow-support item like a fishing kit, meant she leaned more on trapping wire and the bow for protein than on fishing.

Season 9 in context

Krebs's 46 days puts her in the middle of Season 9's placement order, well ahead of the contestants who tapped out in the season's first three weeks. For the complete comparison of what every recorded contestant that season carried, our Season 9 gear roundup has the full list, and alone-rules covers the ten-item cap every contestant, Krebs included, had to work within.