Brooke Walles learned to ski in jeans on snow-covered landfills in Iowa and Illinois. While growing up outside Chicago in the town of Wheaton, Illinois, he played football and wrestled. He attended the University of Kansas, where he studied psychology and played on the school’s rugby team. After graduating college in 1995, Brooke moved west to Jackson, Wyoming, but he never planned to stay. He came to ski and he worked in a hotel to cover his ren...