Snow Triple Play Adds Kissing Bridge, Offers $100 Mountain Collective Discount
Snow Triple Play now offers a total of three days at a choice of 16 ski areas
The latest New York trash-heap-to-snow-temple redemption story is Kissing Bridge, a Great Lakes snowbelt storm-collector that blew out its borders in the ‘80s before stagnating in this century, praying for snow while its once-mighty snowmaking system shrank to just six trails.
Then, as with Titus and West and Holiday Mountain, someone with enthusiasm and a wallet bought the place, and the renaissance is on, as I documented after a visit earlier this year, and will explore in-depth when I push out an already-recorded podcast with new owner Rhett McNulty.
Kissing Bridge's Long Decline Reverses Under New Ownership
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KB’s latest comeback move is to join Snow Partners’ new Snow Triple Play product, slotting it on a roster with monsters like Whiteface and Gore. This marks the western New York mountain’s first venture into the multimountain pass market. Kissing Bridge is the 16th mountain to sign on since the Snow Triple Play’s launch this summer. Passholders can ski a total of three days – two days max at any one mountain – at a pretty nice initial lineup of eastern ski areas:
Snow Partners announced KB’s addition last week, along with an offer for $100 off an adult Mountain Collective pass for Snow Triple Play passholders (and season passholders at the company’s Mountain Creek and Big Snow ski areas). Mountain Collective passholders are, in turn, eligible for a small discount on Snow Triple Play.
It’s a cool deal for both passes, linking Snow Triple Play holders to the Mt. Big Times of the world and offering a local bolt-on (at least for eastern skiers), to a Mountain Collective roster that has always been dream-destination oriented.
But the Snow Triple + MC combo is freighted with asterisks, and it’s a bit too easy to overpay if skiers buy the products in the wrong order. Both the Epic Pass and individual ski areas offer lower-priced day-pass products that may pair just as well with Destination Dave’s Mountain Collective. And Ikon, with its big roster overlap, always factors into any MC consideration.
So how does the ST/MC combo stack up against our current shopping cart of options? Let’s take a look: