For this task I chose to return to a public park I spent hours of my childhood playing in. Ten inches of snow fell just the other day in Chicago, which gave me the opportunity to leave a visible mark of the unlikely. I looked around for surfaces to scale and found a nice metal slide. Most readers will have memories of the infamous ability of metal slides to burn your rear end off, making them near-useless on the days you want to use them most.

Now. walking up a metal slide is, as any schoolchild knows, a dangerous task. After all, if it's cleaned well, there won't be much friction at all, and the slide's at a difficult angle to scale. Walking up a metal slide covered in ice and snow is not only a dangerous task, but an extremely stupid one and so, of course, I just had to do it, figuring that even if snow isn't permanent, scars are. Fortunately, I came down the stairs uninjured and took photos to document my task completion.