Sleeping Giant on TV tonight

Folks tuning into the season premiere of "World's Toughest Fixes" tonight -- it airs at 7 and 10 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel -- will catch a familiar mountain face.

Last summer's upgrades to the Sleeping Giant Ski Area -- chiefly, the installation of the new western chairlift -- will be featured in a hour-long episode entitled, "Rocky Mountain Rigging."

What drew "Toughest Fixes" to our neck of the woods was the fact that the "new" lift was constructed using parts from other retired ski lifts. (That, and apparently the fact that heli-lifting multi-ton metal lift towers up a mountainside isn't exactly easy.) In the episode, host Sean Riley compares the piecemeal lift to that of Frankenstein's monster. There's a clip from the show embedded below, if you want a peek.

The crew also got some fun b-roll when they were in Cody, including enlisting the help of the Cody Gunfighters and Old Trail Town to stage an old West shootout.

Yours truly was briefly interviewed for the episode, but I'm confident that footage was some of the first to hit the editing room floor in favor of more interesting fare.

The "Toughest Fixes" site is loaded with lots of neat bonus features, such as a photo gallery (we'll forgive them for calling Yellowstone Lower Falls "A waterfall ... of Cody, Wyoming"), an interactive game where you can build your own ski lift, and Riley's scheduled to live-blog tonight's premiere with inside insights.