Poldi Waldmann-Moloney
Hokitika · Alone Season 13: Alone: World Championship
- Age on show
- 24
- Gear sourced
- 10/10
How far did Poldi get? (tap to reveal)
- Days lasted
- 14
- Placement
- 8th
Poldi'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 exampleBow and arrows
Pictured: unspecified 40-lb takedown recurve bow
category exampleFishing line and hooks
Pictured: unspecified assorted hooks + monofilament line
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category exampleSnare wire
Pictured: unspecified 20-gauge snare wire
category exampleSleeping bag
Pictured: Wiggy's Antarctic mummy-style bag (-60F synthetic, long/wide)
What the gear choices tell us
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.
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.
How Poldi's run went (reveals the result)
Whitewater kayaking instructor and skilled bow hunter who spends roughly 150 days a year stalking game; the season's youngest contestant. He caught substantial fish and small game early, but an overambitious permanent shelter consumed too much energy.
Why the run ended: Tapped out on Day 14 after the heavy labor of building an oversized tipi shelter left him physically exhausted and emotionally depleted. He said he had nothing left in the tank and could no longer manage the isolation and homesickness.
Our take
The season is still airing, so we are holding all outcome talk and watching the setup instead. The pairing we find most interesting: the cast's most specialized single skill, high-repetition bow hunting, inside its least specialized list. Arctic Circle terrain is a hard place for archery to produce, game density and shot opportunities dictate everything, and a hunter who spends half their year drawing a bow has exactly one kind of leverage over that randomness: readiness for the opportunities that do come. Whether the Richardson Mountains offer enough of them is the broadcast's question to answer, not ours to pre-empt.
Compare with the rest of the Season 13 cast or see what every winner carried.