Jacques Turcotte
Juneau, Alaska, USA · Alone Season 9: Labrador (marketed on some platforms as "Alone: Polar Bear Island")
- Age on show
- 23
- Gear sourced
- 10/10
How far did Jacques get? (tap to reveal)
- Days lasted
- 15
- Placement
- 10th
Jacques'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 exampleBow and arrows
Pictured: unspecified 40-lb takedown recurve bow
category exampleTrapping wire
Pictured: unspecified 20-gauge snare wire
category exampleFishing line and hooks
Pictured: unspecified assorted hooks + monofilament line
category exampleEmergency rations
What the gear choices tell us
At 23, Jacques Turcotte was the youngest person in the Season 9 field, and his list splits neatly between ambition and insurance. The ambition: a full three system food plan, bow, trapping wire, fishing kit, aimed at Labrador's caribou and char country. The insurance: an emergency ration allotment, the one item on the list that plans for the plan failing.
The subtractions are where a glacier guide's habits show. No saw and no paracord recorded; an axe carries the entire wood economy, and an ice climbing professional is exactly the sort of person comfortable trusting one big tool and improvised cordage. A dedicated knife rides alongside a multitool, doubling blade coverage where most lists double nothing.
Among the 101 contestants with recorded gear lists in our data, the axe only wood system is a minority position that mostly belongs to earlier seasons and to supremely tool confident people. His kit is a young professional's blend: aggressive where his skills are proven, hedged where the wilderness is new.
How Jacques's run went (reveals the result)
Glacier guide specializing in ice climbing; married his girlfriend Catherine shortly after the season aired.
Why the run ended: Missed his family
Our take
Fifteen days, tenth place, tapped because he missed his family, and shortly after the season aired he married his girlfriend Catherine, which recasts the whole exit. He did not fail to endure Labrador; he ran the math on what he was enduring it instead of, and made a call plenty of viewers respect more with every rewatch.
The youngest contestant leaving early for home is the show's most honest recurring storyline. Our take: the kit and the guide's skills were never really tested, and a decade from now a returning Turcotte would be a genuinely dangerous entrant. The show has seen that sequel before.
Compare with the rest of the Season 9 cast or see what every winner carried.