Where to land a plane in the Cascades?

Hey Folks- My friend is thinking about buying a plane which has floats to land on snow. Does anybody know where you can land a plane in the Cascades? The plane needs about 100 yards of flat to land and take off again. (Of course I am talking about the winter months when there is enough snow.) Any input would be much appreciated.

Cheers- Marc

There is a 80's Columbian drug lord style airstrip just to the right of Crystal Mt boulevard as you are descending towards 410 I believe in the valley.

Where did you meet Indiana?

Come mid-winter ask again. If you take me (ski gear in tow) with you, I'll help you scout for a place to land!

Sounds like most of you guys are up by Seattle, but Crescent Lake in Oregon, right by Highway 58, has a strip that's not bad.  Pretty good access to Diamond Peak and potentially Three Sisters + depending on whether or not your Lamborghini drives out of the plane after you land...

If you're hoping to land in the backcountry (not at an airstrip) you're 50 years too late. Just about any place you'd want to land is in either a national park or wilderness area and landing aircraft is illegal.

Once upon a time, people legally landed airplanes on places like Honeycomb Glacier on Glacier Peak and Blue Glacier on Mt Olympus . An illegal landing on the summit of Mt Rainier is described in Dee Molenaar's Challenge of Rainier . Airdrops have been made in many places in the Cascades. I don't know if those are illegal today.

Helicopters have been known to set down on private inholdings within wilderness areas (see "Farewell Missions" in the sidebar of this story ). But on public land such landings are generally allowed only during emergencies.

If you're really keen to land a plane in the backcountry you should look farther north to the B.C. Coast Mountains. There's lots of unprotected glacier terrain up there. Sort of like the wild west...

There is a 80's Columbian drug lord style airstrip just to the right of Crystal Mt boulevard as you are descending towards 410 I believe in the valley.

I landed at that airstrip with my dad when I was a kid (1960s). He was a member of the Boeing flying club. It was a scary takeoff--those trees looked really tall as we were bumping along toward them!