The ladies of TiTs DEEP released the second episode of their new web series this week. “Webisode #2 ‘All Roads Lead To The PNW,’” is filled with great kayaking footage, including a tandem kayak drop of Celestial Falls in Oregon. It also features the off-water antics we’ve come to expect from TiTs DEEP—a movement to empower females in extreme adventure sports.

Breakfast beers, blanket forts and seemingly spontaneous dance moves are all in there for a reason, says Katrina Van Wijk, who was literally tits-deep in the water of the Green River last year when the movement’s name was coined. 

“I think it’s important to show that we are normal people that enjoy having fun,” she says. The goal of the web series is to encourage more women to push themselves in extreme sports and pairing the paddling footage with a look at day-to-day life “makes it more realistic for the viewer to be inspired,” says Van Wijk.

TiTs DEEP plans to feature women from a variety of extreme sports in upcoming episodes. A new video will be released each month, and along with whitewater kayaking, Van Wijk hopes to show mountain biking, skiing and rock climbing, and the lifestyle of each sport’s ladies.

To learn more, watch The Creation of TiTs DEEP and the first episode in the series, Webisode #1: Tetas Profundas.

These days, it’s not often that explorers change maps. Even less common that the vehicle of discovery is a canoe. But that’s just what happened in 2012, when Adam Shoalts discovered seven previously unknown waterfalls, accidently paddling over the edge of one in the process.

This past summer, he returned to the Again River, which straddles the border between Ontario and Quebec, with funding from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to properly document his discoveries.

While maps of the Again River did exist prior, they were based on aerial images taken in the 1950’s and weren’t entirely accurate. Returning to document his discoveries meant measuring the height and exact location of each waterfall, information that Shoalts will then use to correct the existing topographical maps of the area.

Find out more about Shoalts and the Again River in the November issue of Paddling This Month, available for Apple and Android devices as well as your desktop on November 20th by clicking here. 

Project Canoe needs your help this holiday season. After a fun-filled summer of paddling in the Temagami area with 120 youth, their canoes have seen better days. They are launching this holiday campaign to raise funds toward new canoes. New canoes means ensuring their youth continue to have a life-changing experiences out on the water. 

To donate, visit there page here: www.canoe.org/2013/11/help-project-canoe-float-the-boat/

Project Canoe uses the outdoors, including wilderness canoeing, to create a transformative environment in which at-risk youth develop life skills, social competencies, and resiliency. Their signature Wilderness Canoe Program focuses on basic canoeing and camping skills, environmental awareness, and the development of valuable social and leadership skills such as co-operative decision making, team work and conflict resolution.

For more information, watch a mini-documentary about Project Canoe below.