"lance smith"
Even though I'm just VFR I've been there many times and 100 OVC is
dangerously low. AVX is on the top of two mountains (they chopped of
both tops and filled in the gap between) and cloud conditions can
change minute by minute.

It's low but "cloud conditions can change minute by minute" could be a
reason to give a try. But one would *expect* the miss.

No runway lighting, a cliff on each end, and
mountains to the south.

It's worse than that. The instrument approach is aimed directly at the
mountains to the south. It is not aligned with the runway.

airnav has a nice picture of 22 on final AVX:
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KAVX

Thanks for the pic. I was wondering what it looked like. I see why so many
like to go there.