Nice report. It is certainly challenging to whip up a bunch of volunteers into a coherent, effective group. I was struck by your 0800 assembly time. In Arizona, where I have done most of my SAR, that would be impossibly late. We usually began operations at first light (0430 at this time of year). If at all possible, and often it wasn't, we would conclude by 0930 or thereabouts, as it began to get really warm. Such early times are much more feasible with an organized group - general public volunteers not so much.

I get the impression that you were looking for a body or something of similar size. In what would evidently be rather brushy and overgrown terrain, a 10 foot interval is pretty decent, but 20 feet offers a lot of opportunity to miss critical items, but I am just wildly speculating, since I have never seen, much less operated in your terrain and vegetation. I am not trying to be harsh, but it is amazing what searchers can miss, even in a close interval line search