Lee Ray DeWilde's Alone Season 10 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Alone Season 10 ended for Lee Ray DeWilde.

Lee Ray DeWilde placed tenth and last in Season 10, lasting 18 days at Reindeer Lake before starvation, compounded by hunger and emotional strain, ended his run. DeWilde's own page has more on his time there, and our Season 10 guide covers the full field of ten.

DeWilde is a pilot and former high school principal, one of fourteen children raised and homeschooled in the wilderness along the Yukon, Koyukuk, and Huslia rivers in Alaska by his father and Native mother. Few contestants in the franchise had a deeper wilderness upbringing than DeWilde, which makes his last-place finish worth looking at closely rather than dismissing. A childhood spent living off remote Alaskan rivers, without the option of a quick trip to town, is precisely the kind of background the show's casting looks for, which is part of why his short run stands out against the rest of his biography.

The full list

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

DeWilde's ten items are a standard, fully sourced loadout with no brand or model data attached to any of them. For the categories themselves, see the axe, saw, bow and arrows, and fishing line and hooks pages.

What the list says about his run

Nothing about this list looks like a mistake. DeWilde carried the same balanced set that most of the season's top finishers used: both cutting tools, a hunting weapon, a trapping backup, and a fishing kit, all supported by paracord, a multitool, and a cold-weather sleeping bag. His background along Alaska's Yukon, Koyukuk, and Huslia rivers is about as close to a lifetime of wilderness experience as the show's cast gets.

Eighteen days, the shortest run of the season, is a reminder that experience and a sound gear list don't guarantee longevity on their own. His tap-out reason (starvation compounded by hunger and emotional strain) points to the mental and physical toll of the location itself rather than any specific item missing from his kit. Reindeer Lake produced several starvation-related tap-outs across the field, including contestants with strong outdoor backgrounds and conventional gear, which suggests the location's food scarcity was a bigger factor in the season's shorter runs than any individual contestant's preparation.

How it compares across the season

DeWilde's 18 days is the shortest recorded run of Season 10's ten contestants, just behind ninth-place Ann Rosenquist's 19 days and far behind the top three, who ran from 55 to 66 days. His gear list, though, is close to the median for the whole franchise: among the 101 of 187 recorded Alone contestants with a gear list at all, an axe, a saw, a bow, snare wire, and a fishing kit are the most repeated categories, and DeWilde carried every one of them.

For the winner's kit from the same season, see Alan Tenta's full gear breakdown, and every recorded Season 10 list has the full cast side by side.