Alone Season 4 Gear: Every Recorded 10-Item List

Spoiler note: this covers who won season 4 and how the recorded teams placed.

Season 4, "Lost & Found," is the outlier in this database before you even get to gear. Instead of ten solo contestants, seven pairs (siblings, a father and son, one married couple) were dropped separately on Vancouver Island near Port Hardy, British Columbia, and had to find their own way to a shared camp before competing as a team. That format shapes the data problem this post has to be upfront about: of the 14 people who took part, only 4 have any gear recorded at all, and only one team's list is complete.

The only complete list: the Bairds

Jim Baird and his brother Ted, freelance outdoorsmen from Toronto, were the winning team, tapping out on day 75 as the last pair standing and splitting the $500,000 prize. Because partners choose gear together on this format, their two lists are identical.

Item	What they picked
Axe	Fiskars X15, painted orange
Bow and arrows	Samick Sage takedown recurve, 50+ lb draw
Fishing kit	20-lb and 50-lb monofilament, 30-lb braid, 25 hooks
Gill net	12' x 4'
Multitool	Leatherman Surge
Pot	Toaks titanium 2L with bail handle
Rations	2 lbs pemmican
Saw	Lynx 3' one-man crosscut
Snare wire	3.5 lbs of trapping wire
Tarp	12' x 12'

The full story behind that list, including the canoe-style boat the brothers built to work their gill net and fishing lines, is covered separately for Jim and for Ted, whose contestant pages also carry the same list.

The runners-up: a partial record

Second-place finishers Pete and Sam Brockdorff, a father-son team from Poolesville, Maryland, jointly tapped out on day 74, one day behind the Bairds, after Pete developed severe GERD from prolonged food deprivation. Their gear record is flagged incomplete and holds only two items: a doubled-up tarp setup and unspecified rations. Whatever else the Brockdorffs carried was never sourced well enough to confirm, so it stays blank here rather than guessed at.

The five teams with nothing recorded

Ten of the season's 14 contestants have empty gear records, and the pattern behind that gap is visible in how their runs ended. The Whipples (husband and wife) tapped out jointly at day 49 from exhaustion. The Wilkes brothers lasted 14 days before homesickness ended their run. The Bosdell brothers, the Ribar father and son, and the Richardson brothers were each split up early enough that one half of the pair was eliminated by a medical evacuation or a tap-out before the two ever linked up at camp, in three cases (Bosdell, Ribar, Richardson) before the surviving partner had even reached the shared site. Short runs on an unfamiliar format left little for research to source afterward, and no gear breakdown for those five teams has surfaced in the years since.

What the two recorded lists suggest about team strategy

Both surviving records lean hard on shared-labor tools. A gill net and doubled tarps only pay off if there are two people to check the net and build with the material, and the Bairds' crosscut saw was built for team-scale construction rather than solo notching. That tracks with the deeper pattern the show's gear data shows across single-contestant seasons too: passive food systems and heavier building tools tend to correlate with the longest runs, they just show up more naturally when a season forces two people to split the work.

Every other winner's kit, from solo seasons where the full field was documented, is compared side by side on the winners page.