Then you're in the right place, my friend.

After spinning his wheels, using up most of the gas in the tank, and burying the car deeper in the ditch, Elmer finally gives up. (Wait a minute. A ditch? That's not a ditch. That doesn't even come close to looking like a ditch. It looks more like he got his car stuck in the mud. What do you think? Does it look like, as Merriam-Webster says, "a long narrow excavation dug in the earth (as for drainage)"? I don't. I think it looks like "it rained last night, the road turned to mud, Elmer backed into the mud, and now his car is stuck" to me. Oh well. Maybe it's a magic ditch. A magic, invisible ditch.) Moving on, our brilliant criminal suddenly realizes that his prints are now all over the car because he forgot to wear gloves (and just in case there weren't any prints on the trunk, he makes sure to put some there too), so the only logical thing to do is set the car on fire. (Yeah, no one will notice the column of black smoke rising up from the forest. No one at all...except the Jack Elrod Ball, who has just witnessed everything.) The car aflame, Elmer decides to get lost in Lost Forest, meaning that it's very likely that he'll really get lost and end up wandering over to the Trail's cabin since he left the map in the car. Oh Elmer, will you never learn?