It’s a matter of degree. If there is a gate to climb every ten minutes, it’s not a bike ride, it’s an assault course. If there’s one an hour, or maybe every half hour, it’s still a bike ride. As for deer-fence stiles, which are about twelve-feet high, I’m thinking maybe even one of those to cross with a bike might constitute an assault course.I fail to see the problem if something is gated. Climb it. Ah, it's too hard on a bike. Well go somewhere easier. Why do we always want the easy way and expect the world to provide it?
I’m neither interviewing to join the Royal Marines nor as young as I used to be, so doing assault courses with a bike, especially one with luggage on, isn’t what I personally signed up for, so it would be useful to be able to tell from a map whether a route is an assault course, in which case, yes, I’ll go somewhere easier, or not. If you did sign up to do assault courses, super; enjoy it.