Almost a week later, Dallas lawyer still missing near Appalachian Trail in north Georgia

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 i