Nope, never seen one on the trail in winter. We see a few blutos, but IME a suspension fork doesn't do a whole lot for you if you are riding on snow on big tires. First there's the low pressure, the high TPI casing, then the fact that the snow compresses a bit (even when it's pretty packed) which absorbs even more energy, and lastly you just aren't going that fast where you get a lot of those sharp amplitude impacts where you'd want a suspension fork. Sometimes it's -20 and you are crossing a frozen lake in the wind, other times it may be +28 and you are rocking the bermed packed trails in town, hitting the doubles and tables. In both cases, the fork doesn't do a lot for you and in some it's simply a liability and something that'll fail.
I'll ride my RFX down into the 20s and teens if it's dry and I have good traction, which we usually have a good little period in November, but otherwise, I hang the suspension up when it gets real nasty/cold. Pressurized seals holding in air/oil don't like the cold very much.
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