Ginger Cracks, fourth lead

This is the crux pitch and the one with the retro bolts, all three of them.
Sonja is in the initial mellow crack, beginning to the right of the hanging belay which in turn is above the groove of the third pitch. Also seen here is another party lower on the route.
The buttress is less varnished up here, and a tad bit sandy. We had read somewhere, maybe in the Red Book, of inferior rock quality and suspect holds on this pitch, but found nothing but stellar, ever steepening face climbing leading to a strenuous crux.
We did not rap after this pitch, but continued to the top.
For the record and because we are pretty average climbers, it might be interesting to know that we spent a bit more than 7 hours on the route and the descent. This is one hour less than Crimson and one hour and a half less than Frigid Air Buttress.

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