Yeah i think the weekend after Christmas is my best bet. Not sure where to go, probably somewhere out of glen alps again. Maybe up towards rabbit lake? Though back towards Willawa lakes was pretty decent. Pretty much don't care where I go so long as I go, and of course I will probably need to adjust any plans depending on conditions anyway.

I have everything one would need for the Eklutna traverse, and depending on your foot size enough for two people even, because now I have extra plastic boots provided you wear something in the 10-11 range. Otherwise AMH rents the ski's and a climbing helmet. By the way I plan on bringing some of my climbing gear with me, mostly because I was able to play around on some waterfall ice a couple weekends ago and it was way fun. But ice is pretty hard to find here in the cascades and I figure it might be easier to find some out of Anchorage while I'm there. So if you're slightly interested in maybe have the opportunity to try something I can in fact bring some extra gear up. A proper stove will be my number 1 priority and I have one I don't have to worry about flying with now.