From Colin Miller:

Evidence indicates it was a genuine attempt to check on the mobile phone generator, which isn’t running and has presumably run out of fuel. Vehicle only got two-thirds of the way up Leids Leap. The wheel tracks are a problem but the quantity and quality of snow generally allows for skiing between them or going off to the side. There are 2 problem areas where vehicle got stuck, causing complex ruts (tricky if skiing between the tracks!). At the lower of the two (between Deer Cut junction and the A941, there’s a lot of grit churned up).

Anyway, other than that, conditions today at Clashindarroch show a marked improvement as a result of Thursday’s fresh snow, which has deposited 3-9cm of powder on top of the hard frozen snow base. It has smoothed over some of the thin areas, but Range Way is still not really skiable. The road at Picadilly Circus is now OK however, and Tuesday’s bare patch at the foot of the hill on the Haute Route was skiable today. Some of the skiing was magic. Temperature stayed at -4/-3C.
and sunny all day.

Car park has a thin carpet of crisp snow over the underlying ice. Gritting lorry went up the Aberdeenshire side of the A9