Alone Season 9 Gear: Every Recorded 10-Item List

Spoiler note: this covers who won season 9 and how the full cast placed.

Season 9, "Labrador," ran along Big River in Nunatsiavut, northern Labrador, from May to August 2022. It is one of only two seasons in this batch with a complete data set, all 10 of 10 contestants have a recorded gear list (one, Benji Hill, is one item short of ten and flagged incomplete, but every contestant has real data attached). That completeness makes it the clearest window into what an entire cast, not just a winner, converged on.

Juan Pablo Quiñonez's winning list

Juan Pablo Quiñonez, a wilderness first responder who grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico and later settled in Manitoba, won by lasting 78 days, becoming the first Latino champion in the show's history.

Item	What he picked
Axe	JP PAXE prototype hatchet
Bow and arrows	Fleetwood Timber Ridge takedown recurve
Ferro rod	Bayite 1/2" x 6", used with a blade sharpener as striker
Fishing kit	20-lb monofilament plus fly line and hooks
Multitool	Leatherman Charge Plus with G10 scales
Paracord	Extremus 550 MILSPEC, 80 meters
Pot	MSR Alpine Stowaway stainless steel, 1.7 quart
Saw	Folding Tuff Camp bow saw, 30"
Sleeping bag	Spiritwest synthetic/down hybrid, -30°F rated
Snare wire	20-gauge stainless and 22-gauge bronze

Notably absent from his list is a rations slot. Quiñonez bet his entire kit on live food, fishing, hunting, and trapping, rather than carrying any emergency calories, and it worked for the season's longest run. The full account is in everything Juan Pablo Quiñonez carried to win.

The pattern nobody broke

Item	Contestants carrying it (of 10)
Bow and arrows	10
Multitool	10
Pot	10
Ferro rod	10
Snare or trapping wire	10
Axe	9
Sleeping bag	9
Fishing kit	9
Paracord	8
Saw	6

This is the tightest convergence in the five seasons covered by this cluster. Every single recorded contestant, from the winner down to tenth-place Jacques Turcotte (15 days), carried a bow, a multitool, a pot, a ferro rod, and trapping wire. That kind of agreement across an entire cast is unusual enough that it says as much about Labrador's terrain, a boreal river system with real deer and small-game pressure, as it does about any individual strategy. The show's broader data on who brings bows and whether they actually work backs this up: seasons with huntable big game tend to push bow ownership toward universal.

Where the season actually split

Saw is the one core tool the cast disagreed on, carried by only 6 of 10. Runner-up Karie Lee Knoke (75 days, tapped out from starvation and exhaustion) and third-place Teimojin Tan both went without one entirely, betting that an axe alone could handle their wood needs. Rations tell a similar story in miniature: only 3 of 10 carried any, and the winner was not one of them, reinforcing that in this particular river valley, carried calories were the exception rather than the safety net most contestants leaned on.

For how this compares to seasons with thinner records, the winners page lines up every champion's kit in one place.