In reply to MC.:
Hey, I passed that way on Wednesday. I'm not sure where Route Major is on the crag but it's all looking very black on the buttresses and thin/broken in the narrower gullies. We climbed the runnel in Sneachda on the way in which was pretty good condition and great sticky ice at the top so if you headed in you could atleast perhaps nip up a gully and get something done, even if Etchachan is no good.
Hope that's useful.