Ghost Rider

I was skiing down Belleayre Run yesterday, making turns over little bumps under Superchief lift, and the tail of my skis strikes a snowboard. 

No rider, just a board. 

The board continued down the hill, gaining speed past me, then hit some powdery stuff and slowed enough for my son to zip over and stop the board on a more level crossover area of the trail. I leaned it up against a lift tower so the joker without a leash could find it, and am thinking I am lucky it didn't hit me in the head or anywhere else when it fell from the lift.