Lands End - Really, it's the End

Nothing makes me feel more alive or closer to nature than knowing my imminent death looms around every bend in the pathway I walk and that's what it was like at Lands End.
Lands End Trail in particular. LET is a beautiful coastal trail located at the ocean edge side of Golden Gate Park. There are many 'hidden treasures' along the way that makes all of what I'm about to say worth the trip.
If you enter the park at the Eagles Point trail head there is a huge sign that reads "Steep Cliffs - People have slipped and been crushed to their death by waves. Enter with extreme with caution." I kind of laughed as I rounded the bend and when I sort of slipped almost off the edge of a the cliff I realized it wasn't a joke. Every so often signs like this and the one above would materialize along the way.
If I wasn't worried about slipping and falling and being crushed to death I was worried about how at the edge of California it is extremely secluded and wooded. I wondered why there wasn't yet another sign " Warning - People have been maimed and dismembered by psychotic maniacs. Enter with a sidearm." There are points where the flaura is overgrown on the very narrow path and while fighting claustrophobia and making sure I kept towards the non-cliff side I became extremely paranoid by every little noise I heard. "Is that a wave crushing a body to death? Is that an animal making love?" I wasn't sure what the noises were occurring alongside me I just pushed any thoughts out of my head that they were being created by a psychopath stalking me and waiting to pull me into the woods to bludgeon me to death and then dispose of my body by throwing it off a cliff and letting it be crushed by waves to destroy the evidence. I'm glad I'm putting this idea out there because all of this horror aside it truly is an absolutely breath taking trail. I passed a sparse number of hearty runners and once I became accustomed to the landscape (mostly sand and soft soil with miniature chasms) I made a firm mental note that I planned on returning often to jog the trail; it makes a very nice loop, decent run, and is, need I point it out, very scenic.

Also if I can find a running partner to do an evening run it makes for a gorgeous sunset. And while I love a good sunset I'm not about to carry a glock to enjoy it by myself.