Rope found strung across Nanaimo trail at neck level

Nanaimo RCMP are warning mountain bikers and trail riders to be careful after a rope was found strung across a trail at neck level.

Danica Stewart was out for a walkwith her husband and family on their wayto look at spawning salmon when she came across arope strung across the popular trail near Beck Road adjacent to the NanaimoRiver hatchery.

After takingit down, Stewart called RCMP, then took to Facebook to post a picture and warn others.

• Wire snags Saanich mountain biker by the throat

"We went down Beck Road to the river access there by the hatchery," she wrote, "and down the trail someone has tied tight rope across the trail, seemingly to knock mountain bikers or ATVersoff their bikes.

"We cut them down and reported it, so please do the same if you see these awful things."

Stewart told CBC News it was shocking to see.

"I walked up to it and it was right at my neck," she said. "Its awful. Its hard to imagine somebody did it once,but it's been done before."

In June 2013, a Saanich mountain biker sustained a large gash across his neck after running into a wire suspended across Partridge Hills trail in Gowlland Tod Provincial Park.