This is awesome to see! I live in NW Iowa but have been vacationing to the Alexandria area every summer for as long as I can remember. Always just been on the chain of lakes when we go there and this will be my first year making a trip or two there for ice fishing. Were you just on small lakes in the area or what is the condition of the larger lakes? I have no ice in my area and in really itching to very out. Might make a trip north next weekend.