Made the mistake of landing with throttle back on 9 inches of fresh powder, almost put me on me nose.... carried 1500 rpm next landing no problemhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2125/2131045347_2070e0abf9.jpg

Super Cub w/ a person in the back seat and survival gear in the baggage.
Crusted 5 or so inches. A little power required to keep the tail down.
Fresh Pow (no crust) about 8-10 inches. Same bit of power needed to keep the tail down.
I wouldn't try much without somone in the back, maybe 3 crusted and 6 powder.
What's funny is that I feel better in my 180 with 29's in 6-8 inches of powder due to the heavier tail.

I finally know why I like the big girls.....putting skis on Thursday after the dumping we got past two days, so let it snow!!!!

This sounds like a good thread to relate my last years story.
I was over at my place in Tonasket with the Cub on 31's and decided to visit some friende in Twisp area. They have a field that runs up a fairly tight canyon. We didn't have any snow in Tonasket but when I got over to the Methow there was quite a bit. It was old crusted snow and I thought the 31s might float on it, but I decided just in case to run the tires on it to feel it out. So I went up canyon (so I could do a go around) turned around and by hard slipping got the tires on, and it felt ok. After argueing with myself for a while I decided to land, wrong choice. There was about 14 inches of crusted snow, but it didn't float. The landing roll was short, another couple inches would have put me on my nose. At full power it would not move. The troops showed up we got a couple snow machines going and worked the area in front but could only get a few feet at a time. When we were about to give up someone mentioned that they had a place along the edge of the field that they kept groomed all winter for the kids on the snow machines. Funny nobody mentioned that an hour ago. It took us about fifteen minutes to work it up to that line, another few minutes to familiesize myself with the boundries of the solid line and I was off. The moral? man I don't know, maybe it is you can't tell by looking. Or maybe God looks after fools............Ron

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Except in obviously very good conditions, I always drag at least part of what I intend to land on a couple times first - wheels or skis. Do others just plunk it on and hope there's nothing under there? Sounds expensive...

I've landed in maybe a foot of Interior AK powder. Half that in tall grass will REALLY get your attention.

My first BW snow landing, in maybe 6 inches. I drug out maybe 1500 feet 4 or 5 times before landing.

and not a human animal in sight.. Woody

Praise God for lonely places.

Be careful, my friend flipped his super cub two days before xmas landing n about 12 inches of snow with a crusted top. Had to get him out with snowmobiles. Spent the next day taking off the wings and hauling it out with a snow cat. Lousy xmas for him (self insured).