Karie Lee Knoke's Alone Season 9 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Season 9 ended and where Karie Lee Knoke finished.

Karie Lee Knoke came into Season 9 at age 57, the oldest woman ever to reach a runner-up finish on this show. She runs the Sacred Cedars Wilderness School and has decades of teaching experience behind her, and it showed: she outlasted every other contestant except the eventual winner, tapping out after 75 days from starvation and exhaustion, just three days short of Juan Pablo Quiñonez's winning total. Her full contestant profile covers her background in more detail, and Quiñonez's own winning gear list is broken down in our Season 9 winner post.

Her run took place on the banks of Big River in the Nunatsiavut region of northern Labrador, a cold, wet boreal setting that punished anyone who could not manage calories carefully over a long stretch. Seventy-five days is an exceptional result by any measure. It puts her among the longest runs in the franchise's history, and her gear list reflects a contestant who planned for the long game rather than a quick exit.

The full list

Item	Brand/model	Notes
Paracord	Not recorded	Shelter lashing and utility cordage
Sleeping bag	Not recorded	Cold-weather insulation for a wet boreal winter
2-quart pot	Not recorded	Cooking and water boiling
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
Fishing line and hooks	Not recorded	Primary long-term protein source
Bow and arrows	Not recorded	Hunting
Trapping wire	Not recorded	Small-game snares
Multitool	Not recorded	General repair
Axe	Not recorded	Shelter and firewood processing
Emergency rations	Not recorded	Starter food buffer

None of Knoke's ten items have a brand or model publicly recorded, which is common for contestants outside the top one or two finishers; the show's public record tends to specify brands more often for winners than for runners-up. What is notable here is the balance across food-gathering categories: a bow, fishing line and hooks, and trapping wire cover three separate ways to secure protein, which is exactly the kind of redundancy that supports a run this long. You can see how her choices compare to others who carried the same gear on the bow and arrows, fishing line and hooks, and trapping wire pages.

Why the list matches the outcome

A 75-day run is not built on one lucky item. It is built on consistent access to calories over ten and a half weeks, and Knoke's list is set up for exactly that. The emergency rations gave her a buffer early on while she established fishing and trapping routines, and having three separate food-gathering methods meant a bad week with the bow did not have to end her run. Her eventual tap-out for starvation and exhaustion says less about her gear choices and more about how punishing that particular location was; even Quiñonez, the winner, built his own kit around similarly heavy fishing emphasis to survive the same terrain.

How she compares to the field

Knoke's 75 days ranks second only to Quiñonez's 78 among a cast where the next-closest finisher, Teimojin Tan, lasted 63 days. That gap, more than a week between second and third place, underlines how close the top of Season 9 actually was. For the complete rundown of what every recorded contestant that season carried, our Season 9 gear roundup has the side-by-side comparison, and alone-rules covers the official ten-item limit every contestant, Knoke included, had to work within.