The setup there with the horse race gates scanning passes is just infuriating to me. It's always such a jumble. I'm sure they spent millions on it. It just doesn't work for anyone under 5 feet. They need to take the pass out of their jacket and hold it up to the machine, which is a hassle and increases chances it gets dropped by the kids.
Cool mountain if you know where you are going and can blast around. With a family, it gets hard because of all of the flat crossover trails to get between the various areas. A lot of hoofing it.
We are trying to learn to love Wildcat so we can add that to the rotation more regularly. SR just hasn't stuck for us and to get there we drive double the distance from Wildcat.