A Brick Township man who went hiking in New Hampshire last month hasn’t been seen since.

Greg Auriemma, 63, set off on a 10-day hike to Conway, New Hampshire, on June 24. He did not have his cellphone. 

Auriemma, a self-employed attorney and chair of the Ocean County chapter of the Sierra Club, was last in contact with other hikers on June 28. A large storm hit July 1.

“What turned out was 4.5 inches of rain, straight-line winds, tornado reports, trees down…you know a storm, a real storm,” says Auriemma’s brother Kevin.

Another hiker found Auriemma’s abandoned campsite July 4. When she returned a week later and saw that it was undisturbed, she called the rangers.

Kevin Auriemma and his other brother traveled to New Hampshire last weekend to search for Greg themselves. Kevin says that he never realized how tough the search would be.

“While I was up there, I almost stepped on a snake,” he says. “It was indicative of the fact that this was a dangerous area. This isn’t a settled area. If you go off the trail, it probably looks like it did 2,000 years ago.”

Kevin says that he clings to hope that someone spots a sign of his brother in the woods.

“He’s missed greatly by his family, by the people who he devoted his life to…He was a special guy. He will be greatly missed for sure,” Kevin says.

The Sierra Club says that Greg Auriemma is one of the group’s strongest voices on climate change. He was recognized by former President Barack Obama as a champion of change for his environmental efforts.