Survival Show Guide
East Arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories (approx. 400 km south of the Arctic Circle, 120 km south of the arctic tree line)

Jordan Jonas

Lynchburg, Virginia, USA (note: some outlets, e.g. Coeur d'Alene Press, identify him as a native of Athol, Idaho, where he later returned; History Channel cast bio and most show materials list Lynchburg, VA as hometown at time of filming) · Alone Season 6: The Arctic

Age on show
35
Gear sourced
10/10
How far did Jordan get? (tap to reveal)
Season 6 winner
Days lasted
77
Placement
1st
Jordan Jonas
Photo: Photo: History Channel
How Jordan's season ended (reveals the result)

Winner; construction worker/hunting guide; first contestant in show history to kill a big-game animal, shooting a bull moose (estimated 400-900 lbs depending on source) roughly 20 days into the season, giving him a major food-supply advantage. Also killed a wolverine with his axe.

Our take on the run

Around day 20, the theory cashed. Jonas killed a bull moose with the recurve, the first big game kill in the show's history, and from that point his season was a different sport from everyone else's: hundreds of pounds of meat in camp while the rest of the field worked hooks for small fish. He later killed a wolverine with the axe when it raided his cache, and rode the surplus 77 days to the win over Woniya Thibeault's 73. Our caution when citing him: plenty of contestants have carried bows and connected with nothing bigger than a bird. Jonas is not proof the bow is right, he is proof of what happens when location, skill, and one clean shot line up. The pan, though, we will always admire. That is packing for the season you intend to have.

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The loadout, examined

One frying pan. On a list headed for the East Arm of Great Slave Lake, about 120 kilometers south of the Arctic tree line, Jordan Jonas swapped the standard 2 quart pot for a frying pan, and the swap only makes sense if you expect to have meat worth frying. The rest of the list backs that expectation: a takedown recurve bow, snare wire, an axe, and a Silky Katanaboy folding saw, with a minus 40 Fahrenheit down bag doing the survival heavy lifting at night.

This is the purest hunting-first build among the kits we have examined. The fishing kit is present but positioned as backup, there is no gill net, and no rations appear in the record. A Leatherman Wave, paracord, and a ferro rod fill the utility slots. Every discretionary choice points at the same theory: in big game country, one successful hunt rewrites the entire season, so equip to convert that one chance and let the small stuff stay small.

Jordan's loadout, item by item

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