I’ve hunted for twentyish years. You better be in shape! Plan on getting poison oak. If not from the plant, from deer if you have success. I haven’t had a tick issue. If your in the shade, deer flies are horrible. If you hunt from the beach, it’s 4k feet up to a glassing point. If you hunt from the top, it’s 3k feet down to water. It is very hot on top where the bucks are. Fog cools things down on the beach, but is generally too thick to see any thing. Fog stops at about 1k feet.
I took a kid in his early twenties out there one day. He was in good shape and he said he would never go back.
I have killed a good number of bucks out there. Nothing much for size is out there (antlers or meat). Killed my first four point out there. Seven miles to pack him out on beach sand sucks! Yes, he was on the top.
It has been getting lots of pressure on the north side. Expect six to twenty vehicles at the trailhead. Pushing 50 I’m about done hunting there. I have a love/hate relationship. Provided years worth of food, but lots of sore feet and scratching.