Adirondack Mac, the mascot for the 2023 FISU Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, hands off the FISU torch to a local student. (Enterprise photo — Lauren Yates)

Lucy O., a sixth grader from Lake Placid’s private North Country School, holds the FISU torch outside of the Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort in Lake Placid on Thursday. Hundreds of local students ran in the torch relay for the 2023 FISU Winter World University Games. (Enterprise photo — Lauren Yates)

A pack of local students, along with Adirondack Mac, the mascot for the 2023 FISU Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, run in the FISU torch relay on Main Street in Lake Placid Thursday. (Enterprise photo — Lauren Yates)

Hundreds of students from schools in Lake Placid — including North Country School and the Lake Placid Central School District — line up to get a cup of hot chocolate at Generations Tap and Grill after running in the FISU torch relay in Lake Placid Thursday. (Enterprise photo — Lauren Yates)

Saranac Lake Youth Center Executive Director Aleacia Landon, left, hands off an LED torch to Lisa Tubridy, representing the Elks Lodge, on Broadway in Saranac Lake Thursday during the World University Games Torch Relay. The Saranac Lake portion of the relay traveled from Petrova Elementary School to the Saranac Lake Civic Center on Ampersand Avenue, where all of the curling competition will take place during the duration of the games. Cathy Wigger, Rob Russell, Katrina Reardon and Martha Watts also carried the torch through Saranac Lake. The 15-stop relay has traveled through Wilmington, Tupper Lake, Keene, Paul Smith’s College; the indigenous lands of the Mohawk Kahnawa:ke in Quebec, Canada; New York City’s Rockefeller Center; Albany’s New York State Capitol; and the campuses of SUNY Canton University, Clarkson University and SUNY Potsdam before ending in Lake Placid Thursday. (Enterprise photo — Liz Murray)

Saranac Lake Youth Center Executive Director Aleacia Landon, left, hands off an LED torch to Lisa Tubridy, representing the Elks Lodge, on Broadway in Saranac Lake Thursday during the World University Games Torch Relay. The Saranac Lake portion of the relay traveled from Petrova Elementary School to the Saranac Lake Civic Center on Ampersand Avenue, where all of the curling competition will take place during the duration of the games. Cathy Wigger, Rob Russell, Katrina Reardon and Martha Watts also carried the torch through Saranac Lake. The 15-stop relay has traveled through Wilmington, Tupper Lake, Keene, Paul Smith’s College; the indigenous lands of the Mohawk Kahnawa:ke in Quebec, Canada; New York City’s Rockefeller Center; Albany’s New York State Capitol; and the campuses of SUNY Canton University, Clarkson University and SUNY Potsdam before ending in Lake Placid Thursday. (Enterprise photo — Liz Murray)