Luke Joseph Olsen's Alone Season 10 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Alone Season 10 ended for Luke Joseph Olsen.

Luke Joseph Olsen placed eighth in Season 10, lasting 20 days at Reindeer Lake before intestinal problems ended his run. Olsen's own page has more on his time there, and our Season 10 guide covers the rest of the field.

Olsen is a glass artist, educator, and divemaster and surf instructor, raised in southern Idaho at his family's Miracle Hot Springs resort before he moved to Maui. His water background shows up directly in his gear: he's the only recorded Season 10 contestant who brought a gill net instead of an axe. Growing up around a hot springs resort and later working professionally in and around the ocean gave him a very different relationship to water than most of the season's cast, and his gear reflects that comfort more than it reflects a generalist's approach to the wilderness.

The full list

Item	Category	Notes
Block of salt	Food preservation	Brand not recorded
Sleeping bag	Sleep system	Brand not recorded
Cooking pot	Cooking	Brand not recorded
Gill net	Fishing	Brand not recorded
Snare wire	Trapping	Brand not recorded
Bow and arrows	Hunting	Brand not recorded
Multitool	Utility	Brand not recorded
Saw	Cutting tool	Brand not recorded
Fishing line and hooks	Fishing	Brand not recorded
Shovel	Digging tool	Brand not recorded

No brand or model is recorded for any of Olsen's ten items, so none are invented here. The two items that make his list stand out are the gill net and the block of salt, both uncommon picks in the season's recorded data. The saw and shovel round out his shelter and digging tools.

What the list says about his run

Carrying a gill net alongside fishing line and hooks gave Olsen two separate ways to pull fish out of Reindeer Lake, on top of a bow for hunting and snare wire for trapping, a heavily fishing-weighted version of the usual food-gathering redundancy. That tracks with his background as a divemaster and surf instructor. The block of salt is the other notable pick, useful for preserving fish or meat over a long stay, a category that shows up on very few other Season 10 lists.

The tradeoff was skipping the axe that most of the field carried alongside a saw. Whether that shelter-building gap contributed to his 20-day run isn't something the data confirms; his tap-out reason was intestinal problems, a physical issue unconnected to any specific gear choice. A saw alone can still process firewood and build a basic shelter frame, just more slowly than a saw-and-axe pairing, so the gap is more about efficiency than a hard capability he was missing.

How it compares across the season

Twenty days ties Olsen closely with the bottom three finishers, all of whom cleared 19 days or fewer, and puts him well behind the top five, who ran from 40 to 66 days. His gill net and axe-free setup is a genuine outlier: among the 101 of 187 recorded Alone contestants with a gear list at all, an axe is one of the most common single items, and going without one while adding a specialized fishing tool instead is a distinctive bet rather than the standard approach.

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