 The trail is rutted in many places, and the once exquisite construction of placed stones on the upper half of the trail is now crumbling and rough.Numerous rockslides cut through the trail and require rock scrambling and route finding to pass.The most recent major rockslide occurred in the evening of 1 March 1983, when a large section of rock in the Supai Group broke away from a cliff face and scattered down Hermit Canyon, cutting the Hermit Trail in two places.