It was near the end of hunting season when a Tamaqua man went in search of an elusive buck on the mountain. The hunt wasn’t successful and he was on his way home when he spotted something unusual hanging from a tree. On closer inspection, that object turned out to be a pair of sweatpants.While that was a little unusual, Sharp Mountain attracts its fair share of hunters, four-wheelers and litter. The man picked up the sweatpants to toss in the trash instead of letting them litter the area.
But the pants were kind of heavy, and one leg was tied in a knot. Inside that knotted leg was a rock. Looking around a bit more, he was stunned to see a backpack caught up on a limb higher in the tree. Using a downed tree limb, he was able to free the pack, which contained a pair of boots and a cellphone charger.
Those boots and the backpack were identified by Farber’s family as the ones he wore to work at his job in the Lewistown Valley.
