Host town and Mountain Pass Altitudes for the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado Host Towns Mountains Salida 7036′ Weldon Creek 2651m Gunnison 7703′ Mt Crested Butte 3450m Crested Butte 9375′ Cottonwood Pass 3684m Aspen 7908′ Independence Pass 3662m Vail 8150′ […]
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Cadel Evans to race USA Pro Cycling Challenge Colorado
Race co-chairman Shawn Hunter has confirmed that Cadel Evans, who just won the Tour de France last weekend, will be racing the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado in August. The Schleck brothers are also expected to be here. As part of BMC Racing, Evans is involved with Jim […]
2011 UPCC Garden of the Gods
2011 UPCC Host City Salida
My incredibly gracious hosts were April Prout-Ralph and Greg Ralph. April is the PR director for the Chaffee County Visitor’s Bureau and Greg is the Marketing Director at Monarch Mountain. I stayed at a brand new Hampton Inn that was clean, state of the art and convenient. We met at […]
2011 Monarch Pass
2011 UPCC Host City Crested Butte
Some History on Crested Butte: My guide was Erica Reiter, PR Manager for Crested Butte “The difference between Crested Butte and say Aspen or Telluride is that they were gold and silver mining towns with a lot of money in the big booms. Crested Butte was a coal mining town. […]
2011 UPCC Host City Gunnison
Mayor Houck: “We get Ride the Rockies and Bike Tour Colorado year after year after year because it’s such a great part of the state to be in. At first, folks were asking is there a lottery? How do people sign up? It’s a whole different ballgame. I think they’ll […]
2011 Cottonwood Pass
2011 UPCC Independence Pass
INDEPENDENCE PASS 2011Justin Todd Back when this was announced when Lance and the governor came together to push and get this all taken care of I was sitting down with a friend of mine who’s a national champion Her fiancé rides for HTC, TJ Vangarder. We were talking and he […]
2011 UPCC Host City Aspen
According to Maureen Poschman, PR Director for Aspen Chamber Resort Association, “The town’s going to be packed. When it was the Coors Classic the town was packed. We don’t know how packed it’s going to be. One of the things I say to the restaurants is you need to be […]