As one would expect, landing on Ruth glacier was magnificent, austere and gorgeous: The tour was just as billed. What was surprising was the level of service: we were picked up from the train, stowed our luggage in their office, were offered an earlier flight than our reservation, ate a picnic lunch on one of their three picnic tables after, and then they drove us into town to walk around, and then picked us up to get our luggage, and then drove us to our b and b outside of town. So they made our whole day in Talkeetna easy as pie. And this was AFTER we’d already had our flightseeing tour, their bread and butter.