Oh THAT ‘ride’. It’s a 2010 ICE Adventure 2fs. Put a TSDZ2 motor on it in 2020, 750W, 52V. Got the panniers for $16 each from Nashbar (RIP) due to a typo on their site. Power Grips on the pedals. Purple Sky flag from TerraCycle. A Crane brass bell. A found riding crop sticking up from one tube of the seat back for 2- or 4-legged dogs.

This one is oddly shaped for a Ponderosa alright. It’s my guess though because it’s the best fit of the local pines based on cone size and three needle bundles.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant, please tell us about your trike - brand, goodies (such as your side bag), how long you've had it, etc. I think I'm not the only one who loves bike details!

They are very resistant. These particular trees are doing all right. But a large proportion of the redwoods that burned are not all right because of the extreme fire temperatures that occurred. They’re at the very northwest end of the CZU Complex Fire of August/September 2020, at the time when so much of California caught fire due to a statewide dry lightning event. This fire burned 86,500 acres / 35,000 hectares. One of the middling acreages that year. 95% of Big Basin State Park, which comprises most of that 86000 acres, was burned over. There were many old-growth redwoods (never been logged) that did not make it. However, even though so much of the park burned, it ain’t dead. It’ll take decades before it’s back to anything like it was before the fire, but it’s coming back in new ways.

The side bag is mounted on a bar configuration that’s visible in the photo but a bit hard to figure out. One bar is attached with double-ended clamps to a bar on the back of the seat, then a T-connector attaches to another bar, to which you add custom designed and machined mounts by TerraCycle (t-cycle.com) to work with the Arkel handlebar bag.

I think Scott’s account, his photos, and the video do a good job of showing my ride. I spent a lot of time looking around at the scenery, which is of course a little easier on a bent than on an upright. And with a heavier trike and rider, I zoomed down the hills, hitting 3omph just before parking the trike here. It was such a fun day.

I'm no expert but I always thought the branches on ponderosas started much farther from the ground and made a stronger cone shape than what I see here. But I'm probably wrong; perhaps Bill Shaneyfelt will correct me.

Good job! The kingfishers around here seem never to pause long enough for me to get a shot. They'll flit past, perch for an instant in a visually-obscured spot, then they're off again.

I can see this shot's another one of those where you zoomed in then cropped and zoomed some more, but still... better than no shot at all.

Somehow I had a feeling it was going to turn up. Glad it did.

The all-knowing interweb reminds me that "Western Flyer" was the appellation attached to a classic one-speed "newsboy" style of bike popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.

http://www.nostalgic.net/western-flyer-bicycles

http://www.nostalgic.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/99504056.jpg

Nope. I don’t recall if it was even in stock.

You’re right, of course. And then I was thinking it was the model train I had as a child, but that was the American Flier.

"The Western Flyer! Isn’t that the classic little red wagon?"

I think you're remembering the Radio Flyer wagon.

An attractive little birdie.

Redwoods are at least somewhat resistant to fire damage so maybe there's hope?

https://www.cnet.com/science/redwoods-are-made-to-survive-fire-but-they-dont-live-alone-in-the-forest/