Poldi Waldmann-Moloney

Pre-season loadout analysis: Roughly 150 days a year: that is how often Poldi Waldmann-Moloney reportedly hunts with a bow, and it is the single most important fact about a gear list that otherwise matches a castmate's categories item for item. The youngest member of this first World Championship cast, a 24 year old whitewater kayaking instructor from Hokitika, New Zealand, carried the consensus ten into the Richardson Mountains: bow and arrows, fishing line and hooks, snare wire, axe, saw, multitool, ferro rod, paracord, cooking pot, sleeping bag, all at category level, per the single pre-season source this season's gear data currently rests on.

Pre-season loadout analysis: When two contestants carry identical categories, the list stops being the differentiator and the repetitions behind one item start to matter. Nine of these slots are support infrastructure, fire, shelter, backup food, arranged so the tenth, the bow, never has to carry the season alone but is always allowed to. For a hunter with that volume of annual practice, the standard kit is arguably the correct kit: nothing in it distracts from the one skill with genuine depth behind it.