Zach Gault's Alone Season 3 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Zach Gault's run ended in Alone Season 3.

Zach Gault was 22 when he arrived in the Patagonian foothills for Alone Season 3, the youngest contestant of the season out of a field of ten from Caledon, Ontario. His run was one of the shortest in the season: 8 days, ending in a medical evacuation after he cut his arm with his own axe, placing him 9th out of 10. His contestant page has more on his background.

The full list

Item	What he brought	Brand/model
Knife	Battle Horse Knives Dutchman knife, full tang	Battle Horse Knives, Dutchman
Axe	25-inch axe with a 2 lb head	Not recorded
Saw	Small folding hand saw	Not recorded
Sleeping bag	Rated to -40F	Not recorded
Pot	13 cm billy can	Not recorded
Fishing kit	Fishing line, 80 lb and 20 lb test, with 25 hooks	Not recorded
Sharpening stone	Two-sided, coarse diamond and smooth ceramic	Not recorded
Ferro rod	Fire starter	Not recorded
Paracord	40 meters of paracord	Not recorded
Rations	Emergency food rations	Not recorded

Only the knife has a recorded brand and model in the sourced list; the axe, saw, billy can, and everything else went unattributed in the research pass behind this data, so this post says so directly rather than filling in a guess.

The item that ended his run

Gault's run is a rare case on this site where the gear itself, not a tap-out decision or a medical condition unrelated to equipment, directly ends the contestant's time in the field. His axe was the tool involved in the injury that led to his medical evacuation at day 8. It's a reminder that the same category of tool that lets a contestant process firewood and build shelter for weeks at a stretch, as it did for longer-running Season 3 castmates like Greg Ovens (51 days) and Dan Wowak (50 days), carries real risk with every swing.

He was also the only Season 3 contestant in this group to carry a dedicated sharpening stone, a two-sided coarse diamond and smooth ceramic model, alongside a -40F sleeping bag that matched the coldest-rated bags anyone in the season brought.

The sharpening stone is arguably the most telling item on his list. A contestant who plans to be in the field for weeks needs a way to keep an edge on a knife and axe that will see daily use; carrying that maintenance tool from day one suggests Gault was equipped for a long run, not a short one, even though the season ultimately didn't give him the chance to use most of his kit for more than a week.

What a short run still shows about gear choices

Gault's fishing kit, at 80 lb and 20 lb test with 25 hooks, was among the heavier-duty setups any Season 3 contestant carried, built to handle larger fish than the lighter lines some castmates chose. It's a detail that mattered little in an 8-day run but reflects the same careful, complete preparation across the rest of his list, from the full-tang knife to the dedicated billy can.

Where he ranked

At 8 days and 9th place, Gault's run was shorter than Greg Ovens (51 days, 6th), Dan Wowak (50 days, 7th), and Britt Ahart (35 days, 8th), and longer only than Jim Shields (3 days, 10th) among the contestants covered in this cluster. Season 3 was eventually won by Zachary Fowler, who lasted 87 days on the same terrain. The full season breakdown is in the Season 3 guide, and the winners page covers every season across the franchise.