"The thing about 18 is that those small hills come all the way up to the threshold making the tolerances so much tighter in the last couple of miles."
I'm sure there are lights on those hills, just like there are lights on towers and cranes. I wonder if any lights were NOTAM'd inop. A bright red beacon placed atop of an obstacle located in the approach path to a runway seems like a good idea, especially for pilots flying in there at night.