Twisted Sisters

If you paddle in Hood River, Ore., chances are good you boat with a few fearless female kayakers. Kayakers like Christie Glissmeyer, who notched the women's waterfall world record on 82-foot Metlako Falls last year and bartends at night to accommodate her paddling schedule. Or paddlers like Kate Wagner and Melissa DeCarlo, who regularly join Glissmeyer on "miss" adventures from Canada to Idaho.

Paddling together over the last few years, the women amassed many a zany tale and heaps of video, most of which finds its way onto their "Northwest Livin'" blog. Glissmeyer and Wagner condensed the best clips into a four-minute film, which opens with the three leading ladies, clad in heels and cocktail dresses, carrying creekboats followed by footage of local drops, bootie beers, mud wrestlingand tandem mechanical bull riding. After the movie won first place at Portland's PDX Kayaker Film Festival in October, the girls started posting 45-second teasers, dubbed Femme45, about their escapades on their blog and Facebook pages. Lunch Video Magazine's John Grace liked the clips, and commissioned them for a regular segment on the quarterly DVD. LVM #33, which premiered in March, features cold-weather adventures like roller derby, winter runs around the Pacific Northwest, and Wagner destroying the competition in a halftime tricycle race at a Portland Trailblazers game.

"It's fun having girlfriends with the same interests as you," says the Dagger-sponsored Glissmeyer, 31. "When you're sitting at the bar and talking about kayaking, they're not just rolling their eyes like, 'Here she goes again.'"

And when they're not styling local