The Mountain, Beinn Y Phott, and Tholt Y Will roads will remain closed until at least midnight on Friday.
DoI gritters have been out since the early hours, salting the main winter gritter routes, before moving onto other problem areas.
However, it said fresh overnight ice and snow has hampered efforts to reopen the three closed roads.
It said: “The fresh overnight ice and snow has hampered efforts to reopen the Mountain, Beinn Y Phott, and Tholt Y Will Roads. Our staff report that areas previously cleared and salted have over the past 24 hours iced over which is now also covered in fresh snow.”
“Now that the position on the lower roads has improved we have redeployed snowplough/gritters back to the Mountain.
“Drifting snow has been a particular issue on the Beinn Y Phott and Tholt Y Will Roads. We have bolstered our staff with contractors using wheeled loading shovels to remove snow drifts from these areas.”
It is planned to extend the closure orders on all three roads until midnight tomorrow.
In the meantime the DoI says work will continue in an effort to clear the roads for general use and that they “will reopen as soon as they are safe to do so”.
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