The family members and three men drove together to an area east of Interstate 15 off Sabre Springs Parkway. They hiked down around a dirt trail around an abandoned fenced-in water pump station.
"I just want to find my daughter," van Dam said.
The men fanned out from the path and trudged through 7-foot-high dried reeds along Los Penasquitos Canyon Creek and dipped walking sticks into the creeks and ponds.
No, Rheo, this is right near their house. Maybe about 2 miles west of their house.