Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to another TrailTales episode. You introduce the trail

tails the same way every time. I can like, hello, trail tails. I thought that right as I said it.

Like, do we start over now? We're in it now. We're here with a lot more trail tails today. And the

first one that I have is kind of crazy. Oh, okay. So maybe I should go first. Well, let's hear it.

Okay. Mine is titled Trail Tail Sort of. Hi, Cassie and Danielle. I'm a new listener after my brother

introduced me to your podcast. And now I'm obsessed. I listen on my way to and from work every day

during my 45-minute commute. I live in the Central Valley in California and drive up to the mountain

in Mariposa, which sits just outside of Yosemite National Park. So thank you for making the drive

more exciting. Today, I'm going to tell you about my first hand encounter with Carrie Stainer,

the Yosemite Park Slayer. Oh, no, you always get these stories. And it's because you did the story.

Yeah. And if everyone remembers, I think it was like the fourth story we ever did. It's a serial

killer. That was in the Yosemite area. So this is, this is crazy. Okay. So setting the scene,

it was the summer of 1999. I was on summer break from my courses at Sonoma State University.

I was working as a cashier in the Curry Gift Store and Yosemite National Park. Even though I grew

up only two hours west of the park, this was my first experience ever visiting. Let alone working

there. I found the job listing online while I was in college and thought it would be fun to do a

summer job experience. I absolutely loved working there. I met so many people who had the same idea

of a quote unquote fun summer job from all over the world. Equally, there were so many travelers

from all over the world who came to enjoy the beauty Yosemite had to offer. It was breathtaking.

I told my parents who oddly enough also had never been to the park that when I sit on the front

porch of my mob, the small shed light cabin we lived in, and I looked up to the right, I had the

most gorgeous view of Half-Dome. And when I look up to the left, I see one of the tallest waterfalls

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