>If this means that the retro-bolting included a new ring before the cam placements, the removal >is fair enough. If you refer to the bolt after that - what was originally the carrot that you had to >clip with a wire if you were less than 6 ft (haven't climbed it since) - removing this would be >dodgy as hell.
Not sure what it looked like before the re-bolt, but there is no gear before the cam placements. the shiny ring is a sane distance above that - from memory you can clip it from where you stand up into the undercling. Near as I can see the rebolt actually reduced the # of bolts on the climb, but has made clipping the one out on the lip considerably easier.