A half mile from his truck?? They weren’t looking very hard for him.
Thus sayeth Michael.SF. “A half mile from his truck?? They weren’t looking very hard for him.”
Here in NE Pennsylvania, search and rescue is volunteer. I have been on many searches for hunters with either volunteer fire or volunteer S&R.
Rather than argue the point that it is sometimes difficult to find a body in a dense forest and hilly woods, I would rather urge you to give your local search and rescue organization the gift of your experience and expertise in finding lost things. There is no such thing as having too many persons in a grid search especially one such as yourself with tons of experience.