Beta policy

Trip reports here include route detail and GPS tracks because honest, complete records are how mountain communities learn. A few standing rules govern what gets published:

• Tracks run trailhead-to-trailhead or camp-to-camp. They do not disclose lodging, private land crossings, or anything not already inferable from the report itself.
• Conditions are dated, not gospel. A line that was safe on the date reported may be lethal a week later. Reports describe what we found, not what you will find.
• Access-sensitive areas get handled with the people who live there. Where local communities, land managers, or climbing organisations prefer a crag or approach stay quiet, it stays quiet — in Kyrgyzstan that judgment is made with local partners, not about them.
• Border zones are treated conservatively. Some corners of the Tien Shan and Pamir carry permit regimes and sensitivities that a public GPX file shouldn't blunder into.
• Nothing here is instruction. Mountaineering is dangerous. These are records of one party's judgment on one day.

If a report of mine publishes something you believe it shouldn't — access, safety, or otherwise — write to me and I'll take it seriously.