Dave Booth
Palmer, Alaska (born in Guam) · Alone Season 13: Alone: World Championship
- Age on show
- 53
- Gear sourced
- 10/10
How far did Dave get? (tap to reveal)
- Days lasted
- 4
- Placement
- 9th
Dave's gear list
Fully sourced selection. Photos marked “category example” show a typical product for that slot, not the exact unit carried. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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category exampleSleeping bag
Pictured: Wiggy's Antarctic mummy-style bag (-60F synthetic, long/wide)
category exampleBow and arrows
Pictured: unspecified 40-lb takedown recurve bow
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category exampleFishing line and hooks
Pictured: unspecified assorted hooks + monofilament line
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category exampleSnare wire
Pictured: unspecified 20-gauge snare wire
What the gear choices tell us
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.
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.
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.
How Dave's run went (reveals the result)
Retired Alaska school principal, 23-year professional fishing guide and 28-year teacher/principal before joining the cast. Note: one source (Wikipedia-derived summary) lists his age as 54 and one lists it as 53; both figures appear across sources, 53 used here per the majority of directly-fetched profiles.
Why the run ended: Lost his primary fire on Day 1, then accidentally dropped and burned his ferro rod in the fire on Day 4; despite having just harvested a 40-lb beaver that day, he had no reliable way to start fire in wet conditions and tapped out.
Our take
The veteran guide profile cuts two ways on this show. Decades of reading water and weather are pure asset; decades of doing it with a warm lodge at the end of the day are not, and the show has humbled professional outdoorsmen before. At 53, his run is as much about recovery rate as skill.
Season 13 is still airing, so we are keeping this to an in progress read and making no calls on how his time in the Richardson Mountains unfolds. What we will say: on paper, nobody in this cast is better matched to the specific water they were all dropped onto.
Compare with the rest of the Season 13 cast or see what every winner carried.