What my idea was is that, in addition to organized mass searches, a group of her supporters declare it Hike for Susan month, and then two, they ask all Utahns, Idahoans, and Washingtonians (maybe Nevadans, Wyomingites, too....) to spend as much time hiking this month as possible in the areas they know well. It's the flip side of an organized search - it's a search of any area within driving distance of where they lived, especially areas he was known to have visited before. So good areas to recommend would be those around where his family lived in Washington, areas he visited as a child in Idaho, etc. Areas accessible that snow-covered night by van. Etc.
These states are full of people who are intimately familiar with a few hiking spots and even some mines (I know quite a few myself). If it was a priority not to wait until August but to get out each weekend, perhaps in the evenings after work, and people essentially fanned out and everyone searched the areas they know well, it certainly couldn't hurt. That is basically how most body dumps are found - either by homeowners walking their land or by hikers.
I wonder about friends of Susan's trying to get the Governor's or Mayor's office to issue a proclamation about Hike for Susan Month. As a way to raise the consciousness of the tri-state region, it would be a good help. But I think the effort needs to come from inside the state, and I don't live there.
