Larry Roberts's Alone Season 2 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Larry Roberts's run on Alone Season 2 ended.

Larry Roberts, 44, came to Season 2 from Rush City, Minnesota, and finished runner-up, the second-longest run of the ten contestants dropped into Quatsino, near Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. He lasted 64 days before tapping out to a combination of hunger and mental breakdown, two days short of eventual winner David McIntyre, who was pulled by producers at day 66 after simply outlasting everyone else and claimed the $500,000 prize. Full season detail is on our Season 2 guide; Roberts's own page is here.

Roberts came back for Alone: Redemption (Season 5), where he finished third at 41 days, a shorter run than his original Season 2 outing but proof the show wanted him back after a near-two-month first performance.

The full list

Roberts's list has more specific brand and model detail recorded than most contestants from this era of the show, likely reflecting how closely his run was documented given the runner-up finish.

Item	Brand / model	Why it mattered
Sleeping bag	Not recorded	Warmth through 64 nights on Vancouver Island
Knife	LT Wright Genesis Scandi	Daily cutting, food prep, and fine work
Axe	Husqvarna, 26 inches	Shelter building and firewood
Saw	Bob Dustrude Quick Buck Saw, 21 inches	Processing bigger timber faster than the axe alone
Pot	Not recorded (2-quart capacity)	Boiling water and cooking whatever he caught
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
Gill net	Not recorded	Passive fishing in coastal waters
Fishing line and hooks	Not recorded	Active backup fishing
Paracord	Not recorded	Shelter lashing and camp utility
Food rations	Not recorded	Emergency backup calories

The gill net and emergency rations pages cover how other contestants have used these same categories, and the hunting knife and axe pages track the specific models, including Roberts's LT Wright Genesis Scandi and Husqvarna 26-inch, that show up repeatedly across seasons.

Two food-gathering tools, no bow

What stands out in Roberts's list is the absence of a hunting weapon: no bow and arrows, no rifle equivalent. Instead he doubled down on fishing, a gill net for passive, low-effort catches plus a separate fishing line and hooks setup for active fishing, betting that Vancouver Island's coastal waters would carry him further than land-based hunting. Given that he lasted 64 days and beat eight of the ten contestants in the field, that bet held up reasonably well, even as hunger was ultimately what ended his run.

The named gear also tells a small story about tool philosophy: a Scandi-ground knife built for fine wood and food work, paired with a longer 26-inch axe and a purpose-built buck saw rather than a folding pruning saw. That is a heavier, more traditional bushcraft setup than some later-season contestants chose, and it matches Roberts coming across as someone building a durable, semi-permanent camp rather than staying mobile.

How his run stacked up

Roberts's 64 days is a strong runner-up finish by the standards of the era; Season 2's winner needed only two more days to outlast him. For comparison, later seasons like Season 3 saw a much wider gap between winner and runner-up. Carleigh Fairchild's Season 3 run, for instance, ended at day 86, a full day before that season's winner was declared. Every contestant across every season works within the same official rules capping the list at ten items, so Roberts's 64 days came down to how he used his gill net, fishing line, and Husqvarna axe, not any structural advantage.