Many of you know I am more in the anti-bolt crowd than most. This is simply retro-bolting and is in keeping with the ethics of the area. If it had never had a bolt before, than leave it as is. It already had a bolt and all the retro-bolter did was make the bolt safer. Was the bolt capable of holding a fall when it was originally placed? Damn sure was. The route is simply as safe as it was when the original bolt was placed and for that, I thank the bolter.
Simply stated, this is no different than what we have done here to update much of the hardware in the "Garden." Dangerous hardware that it dangerous because of neglect is ludicrous. Climbing stupid does not make you a hardman; it just makes you stupid; or dead. (and this has happened here several times with people clipping old pitons/buttonheads less than a mile from my house here.)