Please be really careful if you are riding up at the Otley Chevin Forest, particularly on the singletrack paths as I found evidence that someone had been fastening clothes lines across a path in the Fell Park area.
I found a length of cord fastened to a tree at about head height (which thankfully had already been cut by someone) and there were several lengths of clothes line & a pair of scissors in the leaves to the side of one tree. This could easily have been used to create another trap, in my opinion.
I’ll be contacting the forest wardens about this tomorrow, but there is clearly only so much that they can do to stop this happening again, so please watch out if you’re riding up there. There are some real idiots around and this type of trap could easily cause serious harm if someone rode into it!!
