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I was curious, but I couldn't find much. Apparently a manufacturer called Yunan made Scandium tent poles ("Yunan Air Hercules"). Maybe they made other Scandium equipment, and maybe at they're still making it.

That's all I could find in a couple of minutes. Apart from tent poles, backpack frames, and cooking equipment, there isn't a lot of metal in backpacking gear. I guess there's more of it in (high) alpine stuff... Climbing gear, crampons, ... But no Scandium that I could find (plenty of aluminum, though).

http://www.yunanalu.com/company1.php



In my experience the high end backpacking gear metal of choice is titanium.




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