Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Mark Graber of Saratoga Springs, center, leads the pack and is the eventual winner of the Carnival Ice Race, a mountain bike race along a loop course on Iroquois Lake, part of the Schenectady Winter Carnival festivities on Saturday.
