BOSTON -- The search for a missing Cape Cod boy continues in New Hampshire Wednesday, after searchers spent the night combing the woods of Lincoln, N.H., looking for him.

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Gail Huff Reports On Continuing Search

NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that Patric McCarthy, 10, of Bourne, Mass., has been missing for two nights, and Tuesday night there was particularly rough weather in the mountain search area in which he disappeared. Searchers continued scouring the area in driving rain and wind.

McCarthy disappeared Monday afternoon while staying at a vacation condominium with his family. He left his brothers playing and decided to head back to the condo, but never showed up there.

Some 250 searchers trudged through the woods near Loon Mountain for hours and found only one clue -- a small footprint believed to be McCarthy's. A helicopter equipped with infrared gear also assisted in the search.

The boy's stepmother and father said they were grateful for all the volunteer searchers who showed up to look for Patric.

"They're going to find him. He's lost," said his stepmother Margaret McCarthy.

"We just want everyone to look everywhere," said Patric's distraught father, who expressed gratitude for the volunteers who came from as far away as Buzzard's Bay to search for the boy.

"It's heartbreaking for a little boy to be out in the woods and scared, so I want to just do as much as I can and hopefully find him," said one volunteer searcher.

"I have a 10-year-old son at home, so it hit home," said another volunteer.

"There's some real steep and rough terrain which the searchers are getting into, which they basically gotta crawl through to search, so there are some areas that are very difficult to search," said state police Capt. Marty Garabedian.

Meantime, counselors have been made available to talk with McCarthy's worried classmates at the Bourne elementary school he attends.