ice prices are slowly rising again after the dip they took with the barge rebalance, but still unles you box 6+ you wont make enough isk/h to cover costs. now, regular mining is still the best isk/h by far (almost 110% more than ice mining) the problem is that its not AFK at all, specially managing 7+ macks. as usual the best way is to move to null and even mining crap stuff you can plex easily by stoking null alliances or corps. but i lost my null spot a few months back...