Jordon Bell's Alone Season 8 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Jordon Bell's run on Alone Season 8 ended.

Jordon Bell arrived at Chilko Lake, British Columbia with a background that looked custom-built for the show. He spent nine years living and adventuring in Alaska in his youth, including surviving an avalanche, before settling down in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a carpenter. That mix of wilderness experience and hands-on trade skill is exactly the profile Alone tends to reward, so his gear picks are worth a close look even though his run was short.

Bell tapped out after 19 days, citing homesickness for his family, and finished in 9th place out of the ten who started Season 8. His full contestant profile has more on his background and run. That puts him near the back of the pack for a season that Clay Hayes ultimately won at 74 days (the full breakdown of Hayes's winning kit is in our Season 8 gear post). Bell's early exit had nothing to do with a gear failure. It was homesickness, a reason that shows up again and again in this franchise regardless of how strong a contestant's loadout is.

The full list

Item	Brand/model	Notes
Sleeping bag	Down, rated to -40°F	Same cold-rated tier most contestants in this location chose
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Primary fire-starting tool
Pot	Not recorded	Cooking and water boiling
Axe	Not recorded	Shelter building and firewood processing
Saw	Silky Katanaboy saw	Faster large-timber processing than an axe alone
Multitool	Not recorded	General repair tasks
Bow and arrows	Samick Sage bow	His stated hunting tool for the season
Paracord	Not recorded	Shelter lashing and utility cordage
Fishing kit	Not recorded	Backup protein alongside the bow
Snare wire	Not recorded	Small-game trapping

Only two of Bell's ten items have a brand or model recorded in the show's public record: the Samick Sage takedown bow and the Silky Katanaboy saw, both well-known names among traditional archers and bushcrafters. The rest, sleeping bag, ferro rod, pot, axe, multitool, paracord, fishing kit, and snare wire, are documented by category only. That is typical for this franchise; most seasons only confirm specific brands for a handful of standout items per contestant. You can browse the full category pages for each item, including the bow and arrows, saw, and ferro rod entries, to see how his choices compare to other contestants who carried the same categories.

A conventional kit, cut short

There is nothing unusual about this list on paper. A cold-rated sleeping bag, an axe-and-saw combination for shelter and fire, a bow for hunting, and a fishing kit and snares as backup protein sources cover the same bases that most contestants in Chilko Lake's alpine terrain relied on. Bell's carpentry background likely made the axe and saw pairing a natural fit, and choosing a name-brand saw like the Katanaboy suggests he had already tested it before the season started.

What his run shows is something the gear list alone cannot: even a well-rounded, defensible loadout does not protect against the psychological weight of isolation. Nineteen days is enough time to build shelter and establish a food routine, but it was not enough to outlast the pull of missing family, which is one of the most common tap-out reasons across the show's history alongside starvation and medical evacuation.

How his list compares

Against the rest of the Season 8 cast, Bell's kit sits squarely in the middle of the pack in terms of category choices; nearly everyone in that season carried some version of a sleeping bag, cutting tools, a bow, and backup fishing or trapping gear. The differences between contestants who lasted 19 days and those who lasted 74 tend to come down to skill execution and circumstance rather than which ten items they picked. For a full side-by-side of what every recorded Season 8 contestant carried, see our full Season 8 gear roundup, and for the official constraints every contestant works within, alone-rules covers the ten-item limit and what counts as an approved category.