California hiker

Caroline Meister was an avid hiker familiar with the trails around the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center where she lived and worked, about 45 miles southeast of Monterey, California.

She told friends she was heading out for a hike Monday morning, dressed for a day trip and carrying only snacks, not equipped for an overnight stay.

When she didn’t return by evening, they called authorities, who started a search Tuesday, using helicopters and deploying crews on the ground to look in remote areas.

Finally, on Friday, the 30-year-old’s body was found at the base of a waterfall.

“Our hope was to just find her,” said Paul Howler of the Zen center south of San Jose to affiliate KSBW on Friday. “And as the days rolled by this became more of a possibility.”he coroner will determine the cause of death, Nieto said.

“She’s very familiar with the area. She’s also an avid hiker,” her father, John Meister, told KSBW on Tuesday.

More than 100 searchers from 13 agencies were involved, Nieto said.

About Carolin Meister

Carolin Meister ( 1969 in Stuttgart ) is a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe .

She studied art history , general and comparative literature, Romance studies and philosophy in Berlin and Paris. From 2001 to 2003 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Art Studies and Aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts , and from 2002 to 2003 she was involved in the research project “Archives of the Past” at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2003 she received her doctorate from the Art History Institute of the Free University of Berlin . From 2003 to 2009 she was a research assistant at the special research center “Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Boundaries in the Arts” at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2009, Carolin Meister has been a professor of art history at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe.

The body of a Carolin Meister who went missing on a solo hike in California has been found at the base of a waterfall.

Caroline Meister, 30, had set out for a hike Monday from the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, a zen monastery where she was living and working, for a hike in the Ventana Wilderness area of Los Padres National Forest. She had packed only enough food for the day and did not bring equipment for an overnight hike, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

he was reported missing when she didn’t return that evening. Her disappearance sparked a wide search involving teams from multiple state and county agencies.

Meister, who was originally from Illinois, was an “avid hiker” and familiar with the area where she was hiking, her parents told news station KSBW when the search was ongoing.

On Friday, responders located Meister’s body at the bottom of a waterfall near a path known as the Tassajara Cut-Off trail. Authorities said that her body had injuries consistent with a fall down a cliff, and they do not suspect foul play.The waterfall’s base is about a 150-foot drop from the trail. Monterey County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Andy Rosas told CBS Chicago that there’s a “very slick” area where water crosses over the hiking trail.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Director Heather Ianrusso told the news outlet that Meister had not been doing “anything risky,” and that she is missed “deeply.”

“She was an amazingly sweet, bright spirit – very gentle and kind and helpful,” Ianrusso said.

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