Dave Booth

Pre-season loadout analysis: Dave Booth spent 23 years as a professional fishing guide in Alaska and another 28 as a teacher and then principal, and at 53 he is among the oldest members of the first international Alone cast. Hand a resume like that a gear list and you would predict exactly what he packed: the full standard ten, with the fishing kit as the item that is not like the others.

Pre-season loadout analysis: On most lists the fishing line and hooks are a category. In the hands of a two decade guide they are the profession, and that is the quiet asymmetry of consensus kits: identical items, wildly different ceilings depending on who is holding them. The Richardson Mountains site sits on serious water, which makes his particular mastery the single most location relevant skill in his ten items.

Pre-season loadout analysis: Nothing else in the list argues: ax and saw, bow and snare wire, bag, pot, ferro rod, paracord, multitool. As with the whole Season 13 cast, our data traces these lists to one pre season source, so the specifics are reported rather than confirmed.