It's kind of like a Norwegian sauna thing, you get kind of impervious to it. It builds strong bones 12 ways, wondersurf. She would know. To me, to be sitting on my board with snow falling all around, the shore, the trees, the houses covered with snow, it's all so serene, and because it's a long winter and if you don't do anything you'll go stir crazy. And winter usually has the best waves.
Surfers blend back into the general population mostly unnoticed.
Their hair may be sea bleached a bit lighter, or their faces a bit tanner, but there is not an obvious surf culture. Still, we do impact. Surfers inject energy into a winter beach, even though we do not revel in the mid-January waves because it is comfortable. We do it because we are obsessed. It's a major pain in the ass.