By some accounts, the eyes of the world were on my little mountain town on Aug. 23. That’s because Salida, Colo., was the starting point for the first stage of the week-long USA Pro Cycling Challenge race that wends through the Colorado mountains. Competitors come from all over the globe, and so do the TV crews that cover them.
 

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Attracting attention

by Ed Quillen, High Country News
August 26, 2011

<h1>Attracting attention</h1> <p class="byline">by Ed Quillen, High Country News <br />August 26, 2011</p> <p>By some accounts, the eyes of the world were on my little mountain town on Aug. 23. That’s because Salida, Colo., was the starting point for the first stage of the week-long USA Pro Cycling <a class="external-link" href="http://www.usaprocyclingchallenge.com/">Challenge </a>race that wends through the Colorado mountains. Competitors come from all over the globe, and so do the TV crews that cover them. <br />&nbsp;</p> <!-- RTT removed image (77564) --> <p><em>Essays in the Range blog are not written by&nbsp;</em>High Country News<em>. The authors are solely responsible for the content.</em></p> <p><em>Ed Quillen is a freelance writer in Salida, Colo.</em></p> <p><em>Image courtesy Flickr user <a class="external-link" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teamracepro/6072993679/">Team Spider Tech.</a></em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/blogs/range/attracting-attention/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=100475&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/blogs/range/attracting-attention/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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