Who Is Alex Ribar from Alone Season 4? What Happened

Spoiler note: this covers how the Ribar team's run on season 4 ended.

Alex Ribar was 48 and living in Montville, Maine when he competed on season 4, "Lost & Found," the team-format season that paired up siblings, parents and children, and spouses on Vancouver Island near Port Hardy, British Columbia. His contestant page is at /contestants/us-season-4/alex-ribar/.

Who he is

Ribar competed as one half of a father-son team with his son, Logan Ribar, whose own page is at /contestants/us-season-4/logan-ribar/. Season 4 is one of only two Alone formats built around teams rather than solo contestants (the winning pair splits the $500,000 prize instead of one person taking it all), which changes the calculus of the whole season: a team only lasts as long as its more cautious member is willing to stay.

Reporting from around the time of the season describes Ribar as a construction foreman who grew up near a lake in Maine, where he learned hunting and fishing as a kid, and who joined the Marines in 1991. Logan, at 19, was working as a heavy equipment operator back in Liberty, Maine, and has said his father was his biggest influence on outdoor skills, learned through years of shared camping trips rather than formal training. That father-son dynamic, built on decades of informal woodsmanship together, is part of what made them a natural team pairing for a season designed around exactly that kind of relationship.

How the run ended

The Ribar team's run was short. Our data records Alex Ribar finishing in 6th place at just 2 days, with the tap-out reason listed as insufficient mental preparation for the isolation. Because this is a team season, that outcome reflects the pair's decision as a unit rather than a purely individual result; the show's own coverage at the time described a bear scare early in the placement as part of what pushed the decision to leave.

There is no recorded gear list for Ribar in our data (his entry is marked incomplete), so we are not speculating about what specific items he carried onto the island.

What he has been up to since

As of mid-2026, Ribar has kept a public presence built around the outdoors. He runs a YouTube channel called Liberty Rogue Outdoors, and his public social media accounts describe him building out a "Liberty Rogue" brand and partnering with a canoe expedition outfitter. He has also been reported as engaged since 2020. Some of that online activity appears to have slowed in recent years based on posting dates, so we are hedging on how active the brand currently is rather than presenting it as ongoing at full pace.

Why this profile is worth reading alongside Logan's

A 2-day placement is one of the shortest on record for the show, and it is a useful data point precisely because it shows that team seasons carry a different kind of risk than solo ones: a partner's fear or exhaustion can end your run even if you personally feel fine. Reading the Ribar father-son pair's two contestant pages together, and comparing them against season 4's other teams on our season 4 page, gives a clearer picture of how the team format actually played out than either page does alone. For the full rules on tap-outs and scoring across every season, see our rules page.