ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A Dallas lawyer is still missing Sunday night.
Charles Hosch, 67, was last seen on Tuesday hiking near the Appalachian Trail in the north Georgia mountains.
Hosch is an adjunct professor at the Southern Methodist University Dedman Law School in Dallas, Texas.
He wanted a walk in footsteps past, so he set out on the Byron Herbert Reece Trail, a 4-mile out-and-back hike up Blood Mountain.
“He is reliable, he is communicative, he has always retained his Gainesville thick accent,” said Hosch’s daughter, Julia Hosch-Singh. “My dad has an Eagle Scout training from this mountain, so if anybody could figure out a way to use survival techniques, and shelters and places that he knew and that really creative, thoughtful mind, to hang in there on this mountain if something had happened, it would be my dad.”
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Hosch-Singh’s father made it to the summit, where he had a conversation with a Ham radio operator.
“Some of it is really pretty manageable and some of it is really steep and a lot of rocks,” she said.
It was the last time search and rescue could verify his location.
“His Boy Scout troop from 1970, several of them rallied and went up the mountain to look,” Hosch-Singh said. “Our search group and our family is very much operating assuming that he was successful in getting to the top and just needs some help getting back down.”
Hypothermia remains a concern.
Search efforts include more than 95 search and rescue personnel, multiple K-9 teams, helicopters and a drone team.
If you have game cameras on or near the Byron Herbert Reece Trail or the surrounding Blood Mountain area, please contact Union County Sheriff’s Office immediately at 706-439-6091.
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