Winter strength tent poles

I live about 10 miles from TentPole Technologies aka polesforyou.com.

They have an excellent facility, worth seeing if you're into geekyness, more tent poles than you've ever seen

They pre-bent some poles for me which was cool. I then tested them out and then they bent them a little more.

They have several plywood jigs, several feet in diameter, one end of pole goes in little holder and then they bend it by hand, around the plywood diameter, until it's bent enough

Call them for directions and I don't think they're open all the time

Awesome, thank you for posting. I need no poles now, but I love learning about quality niche suppliers for "someday" solutions.

Then it might interest you to know that Quest Outfitters sells the Easton 18", .433" OD pole sections, with insert added, for $3.49 each.

Since its a pole thread, I will ask this question here.

I'm planning to build a sled (pulk) mainly to be used or the PNW snow camping. I'm thinking to use the Aluminum tent poles to pull the sled instead of rope in PVC tubes? any advantages using Aluminum tent poles over rope+PVC?

Some possible problems with that :
You need larger (heavier) than usual diameter to be able to insert a rope strong enough to pull a sled.
The stress put on the ferrule area may be more than they can take
You will need to tape the sections together to hold them in place, that will add to the weight and possible failure
The poles may stick (freeze) into the snow when resting.