With the big C bearing down on us, I’m learning to reappreciate the outdoors, above all those patches with social distancing built in. Several days back, a friend invited me to hike Igidae, a coastal mountain trail running from Dongseangmal Observatory to Oryukdo, north to south. We flipped it, meeting in Kyungsung and bussing it to those photo-hungry islands that change their number with the tides (within the name Oryukdo, o means 5 and ryuk 6). The sky provided a thin drizzle, natural cooling for the two and a half hour trek. The fog muffled our view of the East Sea, diffusing and holding the light. Walk or hike, it has elements of both. There is more than a single route, but the path we took kept the jagged cliffs close and Gwangan Bridge and the skyscrapers of Centum City within sight. Inspiring. Perspiring but not uncomfortably. The ups and downs were tempered by sturdy rails and stairs, the impossible leaps by suspension bridges. We passed and were passed by a dozen or so souls, no doubt numbers impacted by the weather and our viral friend.