Alone Season 3 Gear: Every Recorded 10-Item List

Spoiler note: this covers who won season 3 and how the full cast placed.

Season 3, "Patagonia," dropped ten contestants into the Andean foothills of Argentina's Río Negro Province from December 2016 to February 2017, competing for the standard $500,000 prize. It is also one of the best-documented early seasons in the database: all ten contestants have a fully recorded ten-item list, 10 of 10, so nothing here needs hedging or guessing.

Zachary Fowler, a 36-year-old from Appleton, Maine, won by lasting 87 days, at the time the longest run in the show's history. Runner-up Carleigh Fairchild was medically evacuated on day 86 after her BMI fell to 16.8, a tenth of a point below the show's mandatory pull threshold, which left Fowler alone in the field for the final stretch.

Fowler's winning list

Item	What he picked
Multitool	Victorinox SwissTool Spirit X
Axe	Felling axe
Saw	Crosscut saw
Shovel	Cold Steel Special Forces Spetsnaz
Sleeping bag	Rated to -20°F
Pot	2-quart, with a frying-pan lid
Ferro rod	Standard
Fishing kit	20 lb and 50 lb line, 25 hooks
Slingshot	Custom-made, 2 elastic bands
Paracord	40 meters of 550 cord

Two choices set Fowler apart from the field. He is the only recorded contestant this season who skipped a bow entirely and brought a slingshot instead, and the only one who chose a multitool over a fixed-blade knife. The full breakdown of how that kit held up over 87 days, including the trout he lived on, is in everything Zachary Fowler carried to win.

What the other nine lists agree on

Item	Contestants carrying it (of 10)
Sleeping bag	10
Ferro rod	10
Fishing kit	10
Axe	9
Knife	9
Emergency rations	9
Saw	8
Pot	8
Paracord	8
Bow	5

A sleeping bag and a ferro rod are the only two picks every single contestant made, which is not surprising for a location cold enough to require rain tarps and -40°F bags for the more cautious packers. The fishing kit is just as universal, tying with heavy emphasis on trout, the food source Fowler himself leaned on hardest.

Where the season actually splits

Axe and knife each show up on 9 of 10 lists, but not the same 9. Callie North, who tapped out voluntarily on day 72 after deciding her run was complete, is the only contestant with no axe at all, relying on a folding pruning saw for every wood-processing task. On the other end, Megan Hanacek is the only one who brought a gill net, a passive fishing tool that shows up far less often across the show's history than active line fishing. Dan Wowak used his shelter slot on a hammock instead of a tarp, and Zach Gault spent his tenth slot on a two-sided sharpening stone rather than a second fishing or fire item.

Bows are the real dividing line. Only half the field carried one, and the two who did, Dave Nessia and Greg Ovens, both went on to place in the season's middle rather than the top two. That fits a broader pattern across the show: a bow is a common pick, but it has never been the deciding factor between a top finish and an early exit on its own.

For the season's full contestant roster and how everyone placed, see the season 3 hub; for how this list stacks up against every other champion's kit, the winners page rounds up all of them in one place.