The two were on their way to a Boy Scouts camp when they lost their GPS signal on a secluded road and became stranded Friday.

A mother and child stranded deep in the dense Stanislaus National Forest late last week left a trail of handwritten notes that helped their rescuers find them, officials announced this week.

A mother and her son who got lost in a dense California​ forest left handwritten notes, which helped searchers find them.