The Stairway...to/from Hell! (you choose which direction)

I was given knowledgeable advice from someone who used to live in San Francisco to go to the lighthouse at Point Reyes. Pretty, eh?

It's widely considered to be the windiest and foggiest place in the United States. Once clocked a wind of 133 mph there. Well, today it wasn't that windy (maybe 15 mph at most), but it was foggy. They also supposedly filmed some popular movie here within the last 10 years. What do I know?


A view from inside a building next to the lighthouse. The lighthouse is no longer in commission, nor it's old fog horn. It's all automated now, in a little building in front of this one.

What my wonderfully knowledgeable source DIDN'T tell me was about...oh...the 300+ stairs that you needed to climb back UP after you visit the lighthouse...the equivalent of about a 30 story building. Sheesh!If you look closely, the sadistic bast*rds have numbered the stairs. You don't notice this on the way down, but they tell you how many you have to go on the way back up. I'm sure some of you will say that they do this on purpose for the old keepers of the lighthouse to know how far they have to go when the fog is really thick, or the weather is bad. I say they do it to torture the visitors.