As you know, lots of high cliffs there. I’ve hiked down into many of the coves at Wilder. I used to take my kids biking there along the gorgeous coast when they were little in the 90s.
Weird story, though. Sounds like either drugs or suicide. If suicide, he must have changed his mind after he went “splat.”
He “ventured away from his group.” If suicide, you’d think he would be there alone, not with a group...unless it was a local chapter meeting of the “Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.”
Yes, there are a lot of high cliffs, but it seems to me, most are not a straight shot to the ocean, there is sand or rocks below. I know of one possible spot, but it’s definitely not 75 feet. Like I said, it might take some effort to land in the ocean.
They say the people who survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge say they changed their mind after they jumped.
It doesn't seem like a good spot for suicide.