Karie Lee Knoke

Karie Lee Knoke arrived in Labrador at 57 with decades of wilderness teaching behind her, running the Sacred Cedars Wilderness School, and her ten items read like a long-game syllabus: bow and arrows, fishing line and hooks, and trapping wire covering three independent protein paths, emergency rations buying time to establish them, then axe, pot, ferro rod, paracord, multitool, and sleeping bag holding the camp together. Nothing flashy, nothing missing.

None of the ten carry a recorded brand, which is itself worth a note: the public record on this show consistently documents winners' kits down to the product while leaving everyone else at the category level, so unbranded lists say more about coverage than about the contestant. What the categories alone still show is a plan built to survive a bad week. If the bow goes quiet, the lines and snares keep working, and that redundancy is exactly what a cold, wet boreal river valley demands of anyone intending to stay past the first month.