With limited time available due to the shortening evenings I returned to the old stomping ground that is Horseshoe Quarry, to sample the freshly re-bolted old favourites.
To be honest I was a little underwhelmed by the re-bolting, to be fair there were some improvements, particularly those difficult second clips that might leave you on the ground if it all went pear shaped, there were also glaring ommitions such as the bolt on 'Litany...' that no one could ever reach without risking an ankle snapping fall onto a ledge, where did they put the new bolt? why, in exactly the same unreachable position as before!
There also seemed to be quite a lot of unnecessary bolts that impacted on previously safe but 'spicey' nature of the lines.
But by far the worst mistake was the positioning of the belay bolts, obviously the person doing the re-bolting was not a climber as they would have known that placing two staples six inches appart but at the same level would lead to horibbly twisted ropes every time you lower off... schoolboy error (can we have Gary's collection of Rams Horns, Pigs Tails and random bit of chain back please ?).
Only climbed on the main wall so dont know what the rest of the quarry is like.
4/10 could do better.