A family of three stranded at the top of a 40-foot waterfall in central California turned to an old trick when needing rescue: a message in a bottle. Curtis Whitson, his 13-year-old son Hunter Whitson ...

(ABC News)– A family who got stranded atop a 40-foot waterfall during a camping trip in the California woods turned their reusable water bottle into a cry for help that led to their safe rescue.

CALIFORNIA – A family trapped at the top of a waterfall were rescued after they wrote a message in a bottle and dropped it over the edge, they told their story on GMA. Curtis Whitson was in the middle ...

SALISBURY — Overton Elementary School fifth-grader Quentin Hippert’s message was to the point. “If we have a sun,” he said Wednesday, “why are we burning our natural resources for energy?” Hippert ...

A California family who got stranded on top of a waterfall managed to get help after creating their own version of a message in a bottle. Curtis Whitson, his son, Matthew Whitson, and his girlfriend, ...

Three campers from California are feeling thankful after being rescued from an isolated tributary by sending an SOS message in a plastic Nalgene water bottle – down the 40-foot waterfall that trapped ...

A family who became trapped on the top of a remote 40-foot waterfall during a four-day camping trip received help in an unlikely way. Curtis Whitson was with his girlfriend and 13-year-old son at ...

Curtis Whitson and his family were days into a scenic, Father's Day weekend trip in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park back in June when they got trapped at the top of a 40-foot waterfall in the Arroyo Seco ...

Curtis Whitson felt sick to his stomach when he realized that he, his girlfriend and his 13-year-old son were suddenly stranded on an isolated stretch of California’s Arroyo Seco tributary. They had ...