Do you understand the priciple of the Ice age?
ETC cannot stay PoW, it WILL have to hardfork to stay PoW (to remove exponential difficulty). Or it has to adopt the PoS, like ETH.
Remind yourself that just because you didnt aprove of the DAO hardfork, that doesn't magically make ETC (and it's chain) any different from ETH.
Read up on the underlying tech before you idolize any coin..
Wasnt the Ice Age difficulty bomb added
after ETH and ETC forked? If it was then ETC wouldnt have it, which is what I gathered when it happened. Even if I am wrong it still would be possible for ETC to remain PoW, it would just require them to jump through some hoops.