So relieved they can hunt next season!!

My wife & I were catching up on last week's episode last night and thinking about how in all of the seasons we've watched, whenever they show someone get set up to fish or hunt or whatever and there's a little clock in the lower left-hand corner, that means we're going to get a montage of them failing to fish or hunt or whatever for 3-4 hours. Like, when I see the clock, I know things aren't going to go well.

Anything else like that that you've noticed in your seasons watching the show, like when you see or hear a certain thing, you know what's coming next?

Not sure how big the Alone/MMA community crossover is, but if you’re like me and are a big nerd about both, you might find this interesting. Also gotta start off by saying huge respect to Aaron for just getting in the cage, let alone in the late 2000’s Canadian regional scene, when MMA was still something your friends edgy older brother liked, not the multibillion dollar industry it is today.

So, Aaron had 6 pro MMA fights total, between 2007-2013. He went 1-5, and most of the guys he fought also only had 5 or 6 fights total themselves, most of them 15+ years ago. Again, big respect to all of them, but in terms of trying to connect Aaron to a current UFC champ, kinda dead ends.

Except for the guy Aaron beat, and to his credit, he absolutely starched the dude. It goes like this:

1. On October 19, 2012, Aaron Barnard KO’d a guy named Ayrin Avey in just 25 seconds of Round 1 in a regional Canadian promotion called 5 Star Fight League.

2. Ayrin Avey would go 0-2 before retiring. His only other career fight was another Round 1 KO loss in under a minute to a guy named Spencer Jebb in 2013, also in 5 Star Fight League.

3. Spencer Jebb had a much longer MMA career, and fought in some notable mid-level promotions like M-1 Global. His last fight before retiring was a Round 1 KO loss to Bobby Nash in Xtreme FC in 2020.

4. Bobby Nash fought in several top promotions across his career, including a short 0-3 run in the UFC, with one of those losses having been a Round 2 KO to Danny Roberts in 2017.

5. Danny Roberts had a decently long run in the UFC, going 7-7 in the promotion. His second to last UFC fight was a Round 1 KO loss to eventual champion Jack Della Maddalena in 2022.

6. On November 15th, 2025, Islam Makhachev dominated Maddalena to become UFC champion in a second weight class, something very very few have done in history. He is the current champ, and is considered by many to be the greatest of all time.

So yeah, that concludes Six Degrees of Aaron Barnard. Like I said, many currently see Makhachev as the goat of the entire sport, and the fact you can genuinely link his career to Aaron’s fairly easily and across nearly 15 years like this is pretty cool. Might be entirely useless and circumstantial information, and might just go to show how small the MMA world really is, but it was a fun way to spend a lunch break.

In that case I'm rooting for Nero. I can't watch it until Thursday like many of us. I will have a special farewell meal. I've never seen Alone Frozen. Maybe I'll just have to watch that after. I've also only seen one season of the Australian episodes.

I'm wondering why on the first day, especially when the contestants notice the wet environment, they aren't grabbing a bunch of kindling (along with some firewood) and keeping it in their shelters to dry out? That way when they do start a fire they don't have to worry about wet wood.

I live on Vancouver Island and my kindling is either in my house, wood shed or barn. It's a real no brainer.

Who is going to win? (For some reason I couldn't put that in the title, something about spoiling.)

Really impressed by the final 3. As a fellow British Columbian, I really want Aaron to win. But I think Ziga's got it in the end.

Last weeks episode made me wonder about all of the shelter fires seen over the seasons. These were the ones I managed to track down.

Almost all would have resulted in a full shelter burn if no one was around with exemption of Žiga, who seems to be kissed on the dick by a fairy this season.

Season 04 - Team Whipple (day 29 2pm)

• Low stone fireplace with bare dry punky log chimney
• Embers from the fire caused the dry rotten logs to catch fire
• Brooke was in the shelter and managed to put down the burning logs fairly quickly. Minimal damage

Season 06 - Michelle (day 13 8pm awake)

• Low stone fireplace with exposed chinked wall above
• Dry moss caught and the dry wood quickly flared up
• She was awake and quickly reacted, but still moderate damage to one wall.

Season 06 - Nikki (day 26 8pm awake)

• Similar to Michelle

Nikki risked bad burns to pull the burning logs off with her bare hands

Season 06 - Nathan (overnight day 66/67 asleep)

• Hot rocks from the fire placed under his bed
• Dry moss and grass started to smoulder but didn't flare up
• Minimal damage, recycled embers to start his main fire

This was probably close to becoming one of the most dangerous fire scenarios seen on the show. Asleep in a nylon bag on top of a thick layer of bone dry grass.

Season 06 - Nathan (day 71 11:48pm awake)

• Loose low stone fireplace, with a loose wooden screen deflecting smoke
• Embers made it through the screen onto his bed of dry grass
• Entire shelter was quickly lost, emphasizing how risky the rocks above were

Season 07 - Mark (day 40 7pm awake)

• Low stone fireplace with exposed chinked wall above, plus loose spruce.
• Chinked moss or spruce caught an ember
• Quickly put out, minimal damage

Season 07 - Amós (day 58 9am)

• External stone fireplace, chimney behind chinked wall (unsure of chimney height)
• Fire caught the external wall, the wood was already burning by the time he noticed
• Full shelter burn

Season 10 - Wyatt (day 50 9:30pm unknown)

• External stone fireplace, chimney 2/3rd height cabin
• Windy night flamed his fire and the external chinked wall (or chimney itself?) caught fire
• Unsure if asleep, but in his sleeping bag. Small, no real damage

Season 10 - Wyatt (day 58 early evening? awake)

As above. More intense internal fire, but had water to quickly put it out.

Season 13 - Žiga (day 67 daytime)

• Molded clay chimney through the tarp covered with spruce and snow
• Chimney failure likely caused the surrounding tarp/spruce to ignite.
• Fire happened when away from the shelter, but enough snow on roof to contain the fire. Minimal damage.

And two other fires of note, include Larry from season two, where a fire built close to a dead tree truck likely ignited the dead roots and this spread into the trunk overnight, plus Cade from season 10 almost started a forest fire.

Most of these fires were from a low stone fireplace/chimney that allowed embers to catch on exposed chinked walls/roof above.

Most of the fires were from fireplaces positioned inside of the shelters. This appears to be a riskier placement, but also seems to give them more time to react (if awake).

After re-watching many of the seasons, I think fire is probably one of the biggest environmental risk out there. I wonder if they do, or if they should, enforce a rule about woollen thermals. These are moderately fire retardant rather than synthetic underwear that are highly combustible.

Instead of having trained enthusiast on the show, you have people like me who sit on the couch and think they could do better.

Hey gals and guys, back again with the Season 13 Episode 11 recap.

When watching Episode 12 this will be very handy; pause when a contestant first comes on screen, have a quick read of what they've done previously and then continue watching — it's made a world of difference for my enjoyment of the show.

Please keep suggesting things that are worth noting that I might have missed; I appreciate the suggestions and am taking them on board where applicable.

Again, apologies for any spelling, grammar, punctuation, or other errors; I'm documenting as I'm watching.

And as always, let's please be kind and respectful towards the contestants, they're real human beings just like you and I.

See ya next week with a next week's instalment :)

I think the participants are pretty limited on how far they can stray. Would it be cool to see them allow more wandering in a season of Alone?

It could open up for some new strategies, like a fisherman wandering from lake to lake, or a fulltime gatherer with a bivvy and no permanent camp, or a big-game stalker following prey for days.

We'd maybe see more gear variation with weight mattering more to the participants, like it often does to us "amateurs"

Either substantially increase the size of the area that participants can roam and camp in.

Or maybe remove the designated zones altogether and let everyone wander and camp where they see fit. Problem then is keeping everyone *alone*, so there would have to be some kind of rule about non-interaction if you run into other participants.

Just a thought. What do you think?

This phrase or something similar seems to be synonymous with that person tapping out in the first half of the participants.

Especially the ones who also go: being alone is no problem, I'm not going to be one of those to tap out because of loneliness - and then they do.

Have they not learned anything from the past contestants? Are they prepped to say these things? Or is it genuine cockiness?

Hey gals and guys, back again with the Australia Season 4 Episode 8 recap.

When watching Episode 9 next week this will be very handy; pause when a contestant first comes on screen, have a quick read of what they've done previously and then continue watching — it's made a world of difference for my enjoyment of the show.

Please keep suggesting things that are worth noting that I might have missed; I appreciate the suggestions and am taking them on board where applicable.

Again, apologies for any spelling, grammar, punctuation, or other errors; I'm documenting as I'm watching.

And as always, let's please be kind and respectful towards the contestants, they're real human beings just like you and I.

See ya next week with a next weeks instalment :)

Its in N Idaho next month at Karie lees property near Sandpoint if anyone is interested. A lot of people from r/Alonetv have asked me to do survival type classes, so I just thought I’d drop this here. I’m even having a trophy made for the fire challenge.

If you’ve ever wanted to grill Alone contestants by a campfire this will be a good time. I’m really excited for this! Link for more info: https://www.karieleeknoke.com/service-page/wilderness-survival-trio-campout

I was wondering if any longer term health/mental well-being studies have been done (knowing the show hasn't been on that long) and it doesn't seem like it, but I did come across this and thought I'd share.

Am I going crazy?

This has been an incredible season!! I’ve had a few favorites and I keep alternating. But it goes to show this has been a fantastic group of contestant, the number of days they’ve already survived is outstanding.

Andrew SERIOUSLY needs a professional career in narration or filming nature documentaries or something. What an incredibly soothing voice, he really already helped so many people just with his appearance on alone.

Ziga is fascinating- his scientific / research approach to the experience is so new and refreshing.

Love Nero! Obviously

Pedrosa 👏🏻 👏🏻

Will!! 👏🏻

Fantastic season. Really the difference in having skilled contestants is HUGe

Sorry, I’m too lazy to go back and find the relevant episode, but Ziga never had a ferro rod - am I remembering that correctly? If I am, then credit to him - by keeping a fire going the whole time he may have completely changed the strategy for a lot of future participants.

Airs Sep 2 but can’t see any more after that?
I need to get my family bingo game sorted if that’s the case!

Hey everybody!
My wife’s birthday is coming up, and she is a big fan of the show.
We barely really do any camping ourselves, but we like the show a lot.
Would love any gift ideas on cool or cute merch of the show, unfortunately I couldn’t find anything online.

Thanks!

Do we have one? Anybody been tracking? 4 contestants over 70 days snaring a LOT of hares. This has to be more than any other season. Any of you nerds counting?

I'm not a native speaker, and reading you freak out about him calling them bunnies is fantastic. Much love from Belgium.

(explain to me why that word choice is a problem if it helps you vent it out, but only as if you were a contestant!)

Especially at times when it’s dark for 12+ hours.