C177 pilot reported a loss of control during landing after encountering a significant crosswind.

Attributes
ACN	1609377
Time
Date	201901
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cardinal 177/177RG
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	None
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30 Flight Crew Total 1667 Flight Crew Type 1542
Events
Anomaly	Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

Requested landing runway with least crosswind angle. During landing; just after touchdown; encountered 70 degree crosswind gust. Aircraft yawed to left; I applied strong nose down pitch and maintained full right rudder. Aircraft tail and left wing lifted; left main wheel lifted off runway; nose wheel fairing scraped for approximately 50 feet on runway surface. After a few seconds; regained directional control and aircraft settled flat on runway. Inspected aircraft. No damage other than scrape on nose fairing. Attempted to obtain ATIS runway report before departing; but could not find phone number. Runway condition seemed less than reported 3 condition. I should have been more mentally prepared to handle cross wind gust; including immediate go around decision.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C177 pilot reported a loss of control during landing after encountering a significant crosswind.

Narrative: Requested landing runway with least crosswind angle. During landing; just after touchdown; encountered 70 degree crosswind gust. Aircraft yawed to left; I applied strong nose down pitch and maintained full right rudder. Aircraft tail and left wing lifted; left main wheel lifted off runway; nose wheel fairing scraped for approximately 50 feet on runway surface. After a few seconds; regained directional control and aircraft settled flat on runway. Inspected aircraft. No damage other than scrape on nose fairing. Attempted to obtain ATIS runway report before departing; but could not find phone number. Runway condition seemed less than reported 3 condition. I should have been more mentally prepared to handle cross wind gust; including immediate go around decision.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.