Great spring conditions with warm weather and sun made for fast skate skiing for the skaters and very good klister skiing for the classic skiers at the 2004 West Yellowstone Rendezvous.
The weather forecast the day before the race (Friday) called for a temperature drop down toward 0 Fahrenheit. That did not happen. The low overnight temperature was 25 F and at start time at 8.45, it was 30 F, sunny and no wind.
The 50 k freestyle race
 by less than a (small) shoe length in a photo finish. Two narrow victories by a total of less than 1 second after 80 kilometer of racing — that’s exciting racing! Where was ESPN?<br />
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