Lee Ray DeWilde
Huslia, Alaska, USA · Alone Season 10: Saskatchewan
- Age on show
- 59
- Gear sourced
- 10/10
How far did Lee get? (tap to reveal)
- Days lasted
- 18
- Placement
- 10th
Lee's gear list
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category exampleSleeping bag
Pictured: Wiggy's Antarctic mummy-style bag (-60F synthetic, long/wide)
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category exampleFishing line and hooks
Pictured: unspecified assorted hooks + monofilament line
category exampleBow and arrows
Pictured: unspecified 40-lb takedown recurve bow
category exampleSnare wire
Pictured: unspecified 20-gauge snare wire
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What the gear choices tell us
Few people have ever entered this show with a deeper wilderness resume than Lee Ray DeWilde: a pilot and former high school principal, one of fourteen children raised and homeschooled along the Yukon, Koyukuk, and Huslia rivers by his father and Native mother, a childhood lived genuinely off the land rather than adjacent to it. His ten items are the full standard spread, axe, saw, bow, snare wire, fishing line and hooks, paracord, multitool, pot, ferro rod, and sleeping bag, all recorded without brands.
There is deliberately little to critique in the composition. Both cutting tools, three food methods, every fundamental covered: it is the same balanced architecture the season's longest runs were built on, and exactly what a lifetime on Alaskan rivers teaches a person to carry. Whatever separated his season from theirs was never going to be visible in this table.
How Lee's run went (reveals the result)
Pilot and former high school principal; one of fourteen children raised and homeschooled in the wilderness along the Yukon, Koyukuk, and Huslia rivers by his father and Native mother.
Why the run ended: Starvation, compounded by hunger and emotional strain
Our take
He lasted 18 days, the shortest run of the season's ten, taken down by starvation compounded by hunger and emotional strain in a location that produced starvation exits and medical pulls all through the field. We want to be careful with runs like this, because the easy reading, great resume, early exit, gear must lie somewhere in between, is wrong. Reindeer Lake's food scarcity was the dominant variable of the whole season, the kit was sound, and the background was real. Sometimes the water gives nothing for two weeks and the body keeps its own books. DeWilde's list belongs in the record as what it is: a correct answer to a question the location refused to ask.
Compare with the rest of the Season 10 cast or see what every winner carried.