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The Amplid Research Cartel is extremely happy to announce that team rider McRae Williams has extended his contract with Amplid. Amplid is stoked to be supporting McRae through a very important year in his career.
Amplid Cartel team riders Steve Stepp and McRae Williams join a select group of Park City's freesking regulars in IRPC's latest movie SKI!
Congratulations to McRae who kicked off the competition season by placing 5th at the NZ Winter Games in Cardrona against a world class field of riders. Watch his run here (@52:40)
While Europeans contemplate whether to build an Arc just incase it decides to rain for another fortnight, our trans-Atlantic neighbours are enjoying some pretty rad end of season conditions. And what more could you want on a hot sunny day than a BBQ and a couple of ice cold brewskis? How about 20+ of the [...]
This week the West Coast Session Team edits went live. Catch the videos on the WCS vimeo page and keep an eye-out for the white bases and green tips of the Cartel all riding next winter’s Syntax skis. Here’s a quick reminder of which Cartel riders were on which team. Steve Stepp and Luka Melloni [...]

West Coast Sessions Happened

The West Coast Sessions an annual spring gathering of the world’s best freeskiers happened last week at Timberline, Oregon. The Cartel has always represented Amplid in force at WCS and this year was no different. Noah, Luka, Steve and McRae made the trip out west to catch some rays, ride the best spring park in [...]

McRae Wins Total Fight

Another day, another contest win for Cartel rider McRae Williams. This time it was victory at the Total Fight contest in Grandvalira, Andorra, sandwitched between the French and Spanish Pyrenees. The lineup was stacked with a world class lineup, not least Amplid’s very own Noah Albaladejo who styled his way to a fourth place finish. [...]
Beating French big mountain freestyler Sam Favret in the Quarters meant McRae progressed to the Semi Finals of the VARS Tournament. Facing him in the Semis was Henrik Harlaut who was keen to throw all manner of butters into the mix in an effort to beat McRae for a place in the Finals. Be sure [...]

McRae Scrapping in Vars

Fresh off his huge win at the European XGames Slopestyle last week, McRae has been hiding out in the Southern French Alps with a crew of world class riders for the Vars Tournament. Based on a similar concept to SKATE but using the letters of the host resort, the tournament, held over three days, pits [...]
TIGNES, France — McRae Williams won gold in the Men’s Ski Slopestyle finals on the Jeep Slopestyle course on Thursday at X Games Tignes, claiming his first X Games medal after failing to qualify for finals in January at X Games Aspen 2013. “I woke up with butterflies this morning,” Williams said after the competition. [...]

McRae Podiums in Austria

Last week team rider McRae Williams was competing against an international field of riders in Slopestyle at the Austrian Freeski Open in Kaprun, Austria. After breezing through qualifiers in third place with a score of 88.25, McRae stepped his riding up again for the finals scoring 92.00 points with a Switch Left Double Cork 1080 [...]
Wouldn’t it be a dream to be able to take laps through Park City’s pristine transition and feature wonderland whenever you felt like it! We reckon McRae’s ridden PC’s terrain park so many times he could ride it blindfolded. Check out this edit by Dylan Ferguson filmed in two days and then tell us we’re [...]
Aspen Snowmass put together this tasty little edit of team rider McRae Williams and fellow X Games competitor Matt Walker familiarising themselves with the X Games slopestyle course. McRae and his Antidogmas look to have the course on lock so fingers crossed for the Slopestyle Eliminators on Friday.

McRae (Versace) Williams

McRae hasn’t quite made it to the catwalks of Milan although the podium at Modena wasn’t so far off. One of the jobs of being a pro skier is getting shots for your sponsors catalogues and ads. Last season McRae was invited to chill with the rest of the Orage freeski team in Keystone to [...]

MCRAE WINNING SHOGUN BIG AIR

Photo: Giovanni Marchesi Modena, Italy, after a long qualification session, the 10 skiers were ready for the final of the Shogun Freeski Contest. The five invited riders (McRae Williams, Jonas Hunziker, Kai Mahler, Klaus Finne, Raffa Cusini, Andreas Bacher) plus the five qualified riders (Johan Berg, Christof SchenkMagnus Solheim, Davide Cusini, Lars Bjorum) were pushing [...]

Mcrae in Windells Session 7

Stept Productions joined at Windells Camp to put a wrap on summer ski at Mt. Hood. Everyone incl. A.R.C. man Mcrae Williams hot-laps to get in their last hits to hold them over until winter rolls around.
You might have caught one the many edits flying around from the Sammy Carlson Invitational that took place in May up on Sammy’s home resortof Mt Bachelor. Here’s a fun little edit from the guys at Rockstar Energy Drink featuring Amplid’s McRae Williams. Despite just returning to his skis after a short injury break McRae [...]
In the middle of this month all the big names in freeskiing made the journey to Mt. Bachelor, Oregon for the Sammy Carlson Invitational. Sammy has a reputation for building supersized features and this year was definitely not a let down with a huge 30m booter to wallride combo. With plenty of cash being splashed [...]

McRae Living Like a Rockstar

Drop-off Amplid Cartel rider McRae Williams and the rest of the Rockstar Energy Drink Freeski team at Bear Mountain resort, California and guess what happens? Actually, there’s no need to guess because the guys from Rockstar put together a sick little edit of what went down. Looks like McRae and his Antidogmas stole the limelight!

WEST COAST SESSION DAY III

Another day in the office for ARC rider McRae Williams. Check out WCS day III and more of Ethan Stone’s photos at DOWNDAYS.com. Or directly at the official WCS website.
When Amplid Cartel team rider McRae Williams’ busy calendar of Dew Tour stops, photo shoots and contest invites like the John Olson Invitational aren’t dragging him across the globe like a wandering nomad, McRae likes to head to his local resort Canyons, Utah. Situated a mere four miles from down town Park City and only [...]
Cartel rider McRae is a worldly man of fine taste… obviously, he rides Amplid shred sticks afterall. Check-out this interview with Alli Sports and learn a bit more about this international man of mystery.
Photo courtesy of Mountain High.  Just a quick announcement … photos and vids will follow … results: 1) McRae Williams 2) Patrick Goodhough 3) Max Peters 4) Noah Morrison 5) Tim Gage
Next game of S.K.A.T.E on Snow is up! Phil Casabon and McRae Williams session Park City Mountain Resort for an epic game. Special thanks to guest filmer, Mike McLoud, from Inspired Media. Click on the image and enjoy…
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