Haley Fox

Let me show you what it looks like.

This will definitely get us lost in the wilderness, but it was a good thought.

Farley proves his outdoor prowess by whipping out some real maps of the area to help orient us to our surroundings.

One witness reported seeing Ajay near the picnic tables at the main trailhead sometime before noon.

This witness was a local teacher there on a field trip with a bunch of elementary school kids.

Ajay stopped to talk to him.

He pointed to a jagged mountain in the distance, Mount Baden-Powell, and said that's where he was headed.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

How tall is that mountain?

Ajay was spotted again later in the day, when multiple witnesses say they saw him jogging through a campground just north of the mountain, in the direction of the Punchbowl parking lot.

But when Farley left his post at 5 p.m., Ajay's truck was still parked in the lot.

And it stayed parked there as the evening bloomed over the desert.

And then, close to midnight, Ajay's wife called the sheriff's station to report him missing.

The search is taxing for Rathbun, physically and emotionally.

Because he and Ajay were friends, and back in the early 90s, they were even partners.

Rathbun and Ajay spent a lot of time driving around together.

But they didn't sit around riffing like partners in a buddy cop movie.

Ajay was hardly two-dimensional, though.

He used his deadpan personality to mess with people.