Officials reported no progress Friday in efforts to rescue two hikers reported missing a week ago in the snowy mountains of San Bernardino County.

But they're not giving up.

"We never really give up a search," San Bernardino County Deputy Shannon Kovich said by phone. "But, eventually, we will have to downsize it."

The decision to scale back a search depends on experts determining whether a lost hiker could still be alive, Kovich said.

"Money has nothing to do with the decision," Kovich said.

Snow expected this afternoon may hinder the search for Eugene Kumm, 25, who is missing on Mount San Gorgonio, and Ronald Barbour, 69, who was last seen Jan. 16 while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail near Wrightwood. Both were hiking alone.

Forecasters are calling for a 70 percent chance of showers by afternoon, with snow above 6,500 feet, dropping to 5,500 feet overnight.

Kumm was last seen Sunday morning as he was leaving a mountain camp in the San Gorgonio Wilderness.

He apparently never reached his goal of signing the book on the top of 11,502-foot summit of Mount San Gorgonio.

Earlier in the week, Kovich described Kumm as an engineer who had recently moved from Nebraska to Seal Beach.

Alan Kumm, a distant cousin of Eugene Kumm, said by phone Friday night that his cousin was from the farming community of Fremont, Neb. He said he only knows Eugene Kumm, and his father, Darwin Kumm, from attending services at Trinity Lutheran Church in Fremont. He said Eugene Kumm was an athletic person.

Kumm's family in Nebraska declined comment.

Erin Reboulet, identified by searchers as Eugene Kumm's girlfriend, also declined comment Friday.

Records from the Nebraska School Activities Association show that a Eugene Kumm from Fremont competed in the discus event at a state track meet in 1997.

Four people have died in hiking accidents on mountain trails this winter. Three slipped on ice and a fourth fell on a slope left unstable by the October wildfires.