Alone Season 10 Gear: Every Recorded 10-Item List

Spoiler note: this covers full placements for all ten contestants on season 10.

Season 10 sent ten contestants to Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, the coldest and most northern location the show had used up to that point, for a $500,000 prize. All ten gear lists are recorded here: 10 of 10, no gaps. What stands out immediately is how little disagreement there is between them.

Alan Tenta's winning list

Alan Tenta, a 52-year-old high school teacher from Columbia Valley, British Columbia, won by lasting 66 days without ever tapping out; the show ended the season by flying in his wife under the pretext of a medical check, and that was how he found out he'd won.

Item	What he picked
Axe	Hults Bruk trekking hatchet
Saw	Silky Katanaboy 500 folding saw
Paracord	550 paracord
Ferro rod	Standard fire steel
Snare wire	For passive land trapping
Fishing kit	Line and hooks
Cooking pot	Stainless steel
Multitool	Leatherman
Sleeping bag	Minus-40-rated, waterproof
Longbow and arrows	6 broadheads, 3 small-game tips

His own explanation for the list was redundancy: a fishing kit, a bow, and snare wire all running at once, so that when one method went quiet he had two backups still working. He built a teepee-style shelter and a smoker, cached fish through the fall, and lost roughly 78 pounds over 66 days. His full list is on his contestant page, and the story behind each pick is on his winner breakdown.

The most uniform cast on record

Line up all ten lists and five categories are unanimous: every single contestant carried a sleeping bag, a fishing kit, snare wire, a multitool, and a cooking pot. A bow shows up on all ten lists too, which did not happen in season 1.

Item	Contestants carrying (of 10)
Sleeping bag	10
Fishing kit	10
Snare wire	10
Multitool	10
Cooking pot	10
Bow and arrows	10
Ferro rod	9
Saw	8
Axe or hatchet	7
Paracord	7
Gill net	1

By season 10, contestants had years of prior seasons to study, and it shows: the food-gathering triple stack Tenta described (fishing, hunting, trapping) is close to universal rather than a personal insight. The gap items are the ones worth noting. Only Luke Joseph Olsen (8th, 20 days) carried a gill net instead of trusting the bow-and-snare combination everyone else picked, and three contestants skipped an axe or hatchet entirely, betting the saw alone could handle firewood and shelter work.

Where the season actually turned

Runner-up James "Wyatt" Black matched Tenta's core kit almost item for item and lasted 64 days before deciding his own journey felt complete, two days short of the win. Third-place Mikey Helton, also running a near-identical list, was medically evacuated at day 55 over hypothermia risk, a reminder that an equivalent kit doesn't guarantee an equivalent outcome once weather turns. Further down the field, Cade Cole (6th, 23 days) swapped a knife and a shovel in for two of the standard categories and still lost consciousness before evacuation, and the bottom four contestants, none past day 23, mostly cite starvation or medical issues rather than gear gaps as the reason they left.

The takeaway from a season this consistent is less about any one item and more about what convergence itself means: when nine out of ten kits look nearly identical, placement gets decided by weather, health, and the mental grind more than by the ten items on a list. Every other winner's kit is worth comparing against this one to see how much of that pattern holds up across seasons.