Hi Dan Thanks for coming on the UKC and UKH Forums today. Yesterday you we at Raven Tor running a bolting workshop. Can you let us know how that went? Was it a good attendance and what things did you work through on the day? Alan

Morning everybody! I'm suitably juiced up on caffiene and ready for your questions about anything climbing gear related.

Thanks for the invite Alan. I'm a little bleary eyed today after the workshop - it was very cold to begin with at the Tor, and a whole day out there tends to zap you a little bit! The day went really well. We had ten people for the workshop, including Kristian and Jon from the Peak Bolt Fund. I kicked things off with the theory of bolting and an overview of the different systems available. Kristian then provided a masterclass of how to bolt in practice - a true craftsman! We then replaced a few bolts and belays, with the PBF guys directing operations. All in all, a really nice way to spend the day at work.

I'm just going over my notes for the day, it looks like we replaced the belayers bolt for Revelations, a new belay and most of the bolts for P2 of Rooster Booster, and some new belays and bolts where needed for some of the routes at the R-hand side. I may need correcting here, but I think Hot Flushes got a new crux bolt, Hooligan got fully re-equipped as did Out of My Tree. A great atmosphere at the crag, we managed to work around people climbing without causing too much interuption.