Joel tells Shelly that St Paul's Hospital in Anchorage is about 40 minutes by air from Cicely. Maggie's Cessna 170 has a cruise speed of 120mph which makes Cicely only 80 miles from Anchorage. The top speed of all the aircraft seen on the airfield in Cicely is 160mph tops. It has been established previously that Cicely is hours from any major city.