Nothing moves down a ski run anywhere near as fast as a snowboard without a passenger!
I'm about 1/3 of the way down my first run of the day this morning, a casual 35⁰ 1km groomed black run. Im just fooling around with some deep carves, nose rolls, and smoke bombs when I see an older japanese man waving at me frantically. I'm very confused why he is doing this, I am after all not breaking any rules (yet) and am well in control of my personal circumstances. There is a race practise set up on this course but I am well away from that. So what has riffled this fellow? Oh shit! An unmanned snowboard absolutely screams past me within 2m of my person. It then straightlines into a group of 6 teens on a school trip to the snow...whooomp! Fucks 4 of them up and narrowly misses the teacher, then keeps on going. People are now yelling and the board just keeps powering on until it rams a building.
Now as I was getting off the lift and preparing for my run an Australian fellow came off the lift and I was pretty sure he shouldn't be attempting this run...but jerry is gonna jerry. Sure enough when I got back to the top there he stood with no board and not a shred of shame for what he had done.