this is me side slipping in, its more like a 10-12 foot drop to snow. after i was about 100 feet down i looked up and saw a seven year old drop in the same way i did, so i went back up and dropped straight in w/o side slipping, it was about a 15 foot drop mabe a little more, unfortuanately i had ignored the advise of a friend and left the DIN on my binders at like 8, (yeah i kno, im like 120) and popped out as soon as i hit snow. it was embarrassing but w/e, still fun, besides when it took me 45 minutes to hike back up and get one of my skis