Content policy

Last updated August 28, 2026

This covers plans published on the Basecamp. It applies to every creator, including Divide’s own. Publishing is instant and your plan is live at its own link the moment you publish it; appearing in the browsable Basecamp is a separate step, because that catalogue carries Divide’s name as well as yours.

Publish your own work

A plan you publish has to be yours. Do not republish someone else’s itinerary, guidebook content, or trip report as your own, and do not copy another creator’s plan from the Basecamp. Naming a route you did not invent is fine — routes are not owned. Passing off another person’s written plan is not.

Be who you say you are

Do not present yourself as a land management agency, a park service, a permit office, or a guide company you do not run. Do not imply that a plan is endorsed, reviewed, or issued by an agency. If you hold a certification or a permit to guide commercially, you may say so; Divide does not verify credentials, and says so on every listing.

Do not route people somewhere they may not go

Plans must not direct people through closures, private land without access, or areas under seasonal restriction, and must not describe how to travel without a permit where one is required. Permit strategy is welcome. Permit avoidance is not.

Say what a plan actually asks of someone

Describe the real difficulty. A plan that reads as a walk and involves exposed fourth-class scrambling, a glacier crossing, or a ford that is only passable at low water is a safety problem, not a stylistic one. Divide is a planning platform and not a guide service — the safety disclaimer says what that means, and it does not transfer to you the responsibility for describing your own plan honestly.

Covers and images

Use images you took or have the right to use. No images of identifiable people who have not agreed to appear, and nothing that would not belong on a public page.

What happens when a plan breaks this

Anyone can report a listing from the listing itself. A plan may be removed from the browsable index, or removed entirely — a removed listing serves a notice at its link explaining that it is gone, and the reason is recorded. Repeated breaches end publishing access.

Removing a plan does not reach into anyone’s trip. When someone adopts a plan they get an independent copy of it, which is theirs. Divide cannot edit or delete the trips people have already made, and does not try to.

What you keep

Your plans stay yours. Publishing on the Basecamp gives Divide permission to show the plan and let people adopt it, nothing more. Affiliate and shop links you add are yours, the revenue from them is yours, and Divide adds no tags of its own. If your subscription lapses, published plans stay live at their links and drop out of the browsable index until it resumes.