Lisa Sayers says she feels shes caught in a time loop, reliving the same traumatic moment again and again: the moment she was told her baby girl is missing.

Every morning I awake hoping this is a nightmare, but its not, she told HuffPost. When I go to bed, I feel guilty because I have food and a roof over my head, all the while, my daughter is out there. Its something I would never wish on anyone. Its the most excruciating pain you will ever imagine.

Since Aug. 1, her 28-year-old daughter, Samantha Sam Sayers, has been missing in the mountains of Washington state.

Shes still out there, her mother said. The search and rescue teams go out every day, trying to see where she might be. We wont stop until we find her.

On the morning of her disappearance, Samantha Sayers made the two-hour drive from her Seattle home for a solo hike at Vesper Peak in the North Cascades in Snohomish County. She is familiar with the area and previously went hiking there several times. Samantha is a very avid hiker, her mother said. She wanted to go off alone. I know people have said she shouldnt have, but hikers do that.

Samantha Sayers was supposed to contact her boyfriend, Kevin Dares, that day around 6 p.m. When she didnt, he went looking for her. He located her vehicle parked at the trailhead. Despite increasing darkness, he hiked 2 miles along the rocky pathway before he fell and broke his flashlight.

Youre sitting there at the base of these mountains, and youre looking up at this monolith, and its pitch black and you realize: I cant do this myself, he told The Everett Herald .

Dares said he used light from his cellphone to make his way back to his car and then sought help from a ranger station. Search parties were dispatched to the area that night, but no sign of Samantha Sayers was found.