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Anyone got an update on CR's condition?
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probably still about the same, we just have to wait at this point
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i feel for CR, but look around the rest of the site for gods sake
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sorry i was looking around for a little more than "hes in the hospital with a koma" we all know that no need to be a dick, just wondering if anyone out there has connections somewhere and might know whats up, get well C.R.
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i was on the bus coming up from campus today and it stops right at the critical care unit of the hospital and we sat there for 10 min. and i was just thinking about how he was in one of those rooms up there, kinda weird, so sad.
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CR Johnson Seriously Injured
By Christopher Jerard, yesterday
CR Johnson sustained a serious head injury last Thursday while filming inbounds at Brighton ski area in Utah.
Evan Raps, and several other riders who work with the film company C.R. is a part-owner of, The Bigger Picture, were filming an inbounds jump sequence that involved a rapid-fire succession of riders coming off a small hit — a practice common to ski and snowboard films. Raps, who jumped last in the group, and didn’t actually see the accident, told Freeskier that C.R. was the first off the jump, with Kye Peterson jumping directly after him, somehow coming out of the air and landing on C.R..
“I think it's important that people know C.R. was wearing a helmet when this happened,” says Evan Raps, who was at the scene of the accident. "We all decided to wear them full time this year. Unfortunately the impact was below the helmet brow. This was an accident and a freak thing."
Brighton ski patrol officially reports that the accident occurred inbounds and on the Millicent area of the mountain under the lift. He was air-lifted from Brighton to the University of Utah Hospital after the injury.
Currently C.R. is in very serious condition and being held in the critical care unit at the University of Utah hospital in Salt Lake City. He is in a coma. His mother Lorraine and father Russ are with C.R. in Utah.
C.R. Johnson has been an innovator friend in the ski industry since he was 15 years old. He first appeared in Freeskier with an impressive 1440 sequence photo taken at Squaw Valley in 1999 and has been a force in ski magazines and film ever since.
But far beyond C.R.’s huge athletic talent, he is a deeply thoughtful person who has worked diligently to progress the sport he loves both on and off the hill. Tonight C.R. and his family need the thoughts and prayers of all of those in the ski industry and beyond.
“C.R. improved for about 5 minutes yesterday. Yesterday was Sunday and the prayers of everyone must have helped. Russ put up a card from the McConkeys in C.R.’s room and I think that card from his friends helped too,” Lorraine told us today.
Our best thoughts are with C.R. and his family tonight and in the coming days. Please email your thoughts and words of support, love and encouragement for C.R. and his family to loveforCR@freeskier.com, and we will pass them on to the Johnsons.
If you want to send mail, his family has asked that you send it to:
C.R. Johnson
3100 Carbon place R101
Boulder, CO 80301
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i just heard earlier tonight he took a turn for the worse.. unsure of details
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^are you sure? where did u hear that? please tell me it's not true
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hopefully he doesnt have serious head damage that will last forever
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lets seriously hope for the best for C.R. Johnson...
I have a gut feeling he will make it. I just do.
Props to my hometown hero.
Truckee Skiers for life.
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According to reports from his sponsors, C.R. Johnson is currently in University of Utah Hospital with severe head trauma. C.R. was filming in at Brighton when the accident happened. He had jumped a cliff and was collecting some lost gear when Kye Petersen launched the same air and collided with him, sources say. According to people close to the scene, as of Friday December 9, C.R. was in intensive care and sedated to aid his recovery
from powder online
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I heard his situation hasnt really gotten any better nor worse.. My friend's cousin is an intern at The U of Utah hospital... so he must have heard it thru what patients and nurses were saying and such..
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