If you don't like Meadows please don't come back and please tell all of your other elitist friends how horrible it is so that they will never come. Go stay in Vail or Tahoe or Jackson's hole with all of the other self righteous indignant elitists! Meadows has every condition and will make you a great rider in every condition while Vail will give you nice conditions all season and make you a good rider with perfect conditions but when you hit slush or ice or variable conditions it's very apparent you've been spoiled as A) you don't know how to ride it and B) you complain about it. It's very apparent that they are trying to push the lower class out of the ski industry which sucks! And to complain about the conditions is like complaining about your gear. I ride a 13 year old board which has been falling apart and being epoxied back together for years, the edges are coming loose, the bottom sheet is separating, the top sheet is delaminating, the threads don't hold screws for long but given all of that I still shred harder than all the brand new gear toting elitists . And I ski harder than them too which really pisses them off when you're wearing skis; out-skiing them and then you tell them you do both and that snowboarding is harder to do. As far as trying to defend Meadows I won't because I don't need to change anyone else's mind on the matter. I love it and am such a better rider in the 3 years that I've been here as opposed to the 15 years I rode in Colorado.