“I have 3 for emergency purposes. Super boring way to keep yourself and others safe in an emergency.”
A personal straw water filter for emergencies, from a company that funds clean-water donations out of its profits.
“Part of his history study of course put him on eating knives and eating daggers from the middle ages.”
A historically faithful medieval knife-and-pricker eating set, hand-recreated with classic methods.
“It has 8 temperature sensors along its length so it understands not just core temperature, but the way heat is moving into your food.”
A probe thermometer with eight sensors that reads how heat moves through food and predicts when it is done.
“The PoulTree is a rod that attaches to your cast iron skillet which catches all the drippings while you roast your chicken on the grill. Brilliant.”
A rod that attaches to a cast iron skillet to catch drippings while roasting a chicken on the grill.
“I took an axe, a saw, a Leatherman, which is like a multi-tools, it's a knife and pliers and stuff.”
The do-everything multi-tool he chose for Alone: pliers, a knife, and more in a pocketable package built to last.
“It's called survival cord. And it has a tinder material inside of it you can pull out... and then it has a snare, like Kevlar cable, so you make a snare. And then it has a fishing line and then the regular string that usually comes in the paracord.”
Paracord with hidden survival strands inside, waxed tinder, snare wire, and fishing line, so one cord covers fire, traps, and a gill net.
“I always carry also just a ferro rod, which is very — it just makes sparks, basically. You scrape it and it makes sparks.”
A ferro rod he always carries as a fail-safe fire starter, throws sparks when matches and lighters quit on you.
“So I bought this thing recommended by a friend of mine, Nick Norris... called the NUG. And the NUG is, it's about the size of a gigantic bar of soap, it's a piece of wood, and it has different depths of grips on it... you could keep it in a jacket pocket.”
A pocket-sized wooden grip-training block with varied edge depths for travel-friendly finger and tendon work.
“There's one called the Indo Board, which I have and I've fucked around with it.”
A roller-and-deck balance trainer for daily proprioception and balance practice, even a few minutes a day.
“I had one between trees, same company, Gibbon... Very portable. So obviously a lot easier to set up and take down a gigantic thing between two trees with ratchets and everything.”
A ratchet-tensioned slackline for balance training between two trees; portable and easy to set up and take down.