Jim Baird
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Alone Season 4: Lost & Found
- Age on show
- 35
- Gear sourced
- 10/10
How far did Jim get? (tap to reveal)
- Days lasted
- 75
- Placement
- 1st
How Jim's season ended (reveals the result)
Co-winner with brother Ted; freelance writer, mineral prospector, and wilderness guide; first Canadians to win Alone.
Our take on the run
It played out almost exactly to that blueprint. Jim and Ted were dropped separately, only reuniting at their shared camp on day 10, then used that crosscut saw to build a canoe style boat, worked their lake for fish, and outlasted every other pair to day 75, becoming the first Canadians to win the show. The margin was one single day over the Brockdorffs, who tapped together at day 74 when Pete's health gave out after prolonged food deprivation. The honest footnote is that the back half got ugly anyway: limpets scavenged off the shoreline to stretch supplies, and the brothers' patience with each other fraying without quite breaking. A shared list and four hands change which problems you face. They do not reduce the count.
The loadout, examined
The orange paint on Jim Baird's Fiskars X15 axe is the most practical item note in this season's records: on a fern-choked Vancouver Island floor, a dropped tool that glows is a tool you still own. His ten items were chosen jointly with his brother Ted for the show's paired format, and they scale accordingly. A 3 foot Lynx one-man crosscut saw and a full 12x12 tarp are oversized for a solo camp and exactly right for two people building something ambitious.
The food gear stacks capacity inside categories rather than spreading across them: a Samick Sage takedown recurve at 50 plus pounds of draw, heavy for this show and legitimate for deer, a 12 by 4 foot gill net, and a fishing kit that mixes 20 and 50 pound monofilament with 30 pound braid. Add 3.5 pounds of snare wire and 2 pounds of pemmican, and the list reads as a team that intended to run passive food systems around the clock while spending its daylight on construction.
Jim's loadout, item by item
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Axe (Fiskars X15, painted orange)
Bow and arrows (Samick Sage takedown recurve, 50+ lb draw)
category exampleFishing kit (20-lb and 50-lb monofilament, 30-lb braid, 25 hooks)
Pictured: unspecified assorted hooks + monofilament line
category exampleGill net (12' x 4')
Pictured: unspecified (reported as 'Adventurer' gill net) small-gauge gill net
Multitool (Leatherman Surge)
Pot (Toaks titanium 2L with bail handle)
Rations (2 lbs pemmican)
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category exampleSnare wire (3.5 lbs of trapping wire)
Pictured: unspecified 20-gauge snare wire
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Compare with the rest of the Season 4 cast or see what every winner carried.