Who Is Ann Rosenquist from Alone Season 10? What Happened

Spoiler note: this covers where Ann Rosenquist placed on season 10.

Ann Rosenquist was 56 and living near Bayfield, Wisconsin when she competed on season 10, filmed at Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Her contestant page is at /contestants/us-season-10/ann-rosenquist/.

Who she is

Rosenquist's background, per our data, is as an off-grid organic farmer and outdoorswoman from northern Wisconsin. Public reporting on her season 10 run fills in more detail: she and her partner run North Wind Organic Farm outside Bayfield, a working operation rather than a hobby, which meant she came to the show with genuine, day-to-day experience managing food, land, and animals on tight margins, skills that map directly onto the resource management Alone demands.

Season 10 fielded 10 contestants competing for the standard $500,000 prize at Reindeer Lake, a large, cold, and sparsely populated lake system in northern Saskatchewan. Rosenquist's farming background sits at an interesting angle to the rest of a typical Alone cast, which usually leans more toward hunting guides, bushcraft instructors, and military veterans; a working organic farm demands its own kind of resource discipline (rationing, preserving, planning around scarcity) even if it does not involve the same wilderness travel or big-game hunting experience some other contestants bring.

How her run went

Rosenquist placed 9th on season 10, out of 10 contestants, lasting 19 days before tapping out. Our data records her tap-out reason as starvation combined with heart-related symptoms, and regional reporting at the time described the specific symptoms as dizziness and a racing heart, likely brought on by the caloric deficit rather than any single injury. She was the second contestant to leave that season.

Her gear

Rosenquist's ten items, as recorded on her contestant page, were a sleeping bag, a saw, snare wire, paracord, a multitool, an axe, a cooking pot, fishing line and hooks, a bow and arrows, and a ferro rod. It is a standard, well-rounded kit with no single specialized bet, consistent with a farming background built around steady, diversified resource management rather than a single high-risk strategy.

What she has been up to since

As of mid-2026, reporting describes Rosenquist and her partner, Tom, still running North Wind Organic Farm, operating CSA shares, pick-your-own berries, and selling at farmers markets, alongside tanning and selling deer hides. Both are also described as instructors at Winter Count, an annual primitive-skills gathering held in Arizona, which keeps her connected to the same skill set that got her onto the show in the first place.

Why her profile is worth reading

A 19-day run that ends in 9th place is not the headline outcome the show usually gets remembered for, but Rosenquist's background (a genuinely self-sufficient, off-grid working farm rather than survival instruction as a side pursuit) makes her case study relevant to anyone weighing how directly farming and homesteading skills translate to a wilderness-isolation format. For how the rest of the season 10 cast fared, see the season page linked above, and our winners page covers the wider pattern of what Alone contestants tend to do after the show.