National championship hopeful
Morgan McIntosh has blazed a trail
to college wrestling's biggest stage
t's a pastime that goes back generations. In some ways it's how the Old
West was 'rst settled.
Strapping leather saddlebags on the backs of horses and mules, some
of America's earliest pioneers explored the Rocky Mountains and be-
yond using a primitive method of travel called packing. They ascended
slopes too steep for buggies, tracts of wilderness too rugged for wag-
ons full of provisions, trails so barren that they could barely be called trails
at all. O(en it was only the strongest and bravest members of the group
who would even try.
Packing up only the bare necessities, a courageous few would hop onto
their horses and spend days, even weeks, traversing the great unknown.
Traveling paths that very few, if any, had seen before, they were deter-
mined to discover what lay ahead.
Decades have since passed, and as the West has become civilized,
what was once vital exploration for early settlers has evolved into ad-
venturous hobbies for many. Commercial enterprises have even now
developed around the practice.
For Morgan McIntosh and his family, natives of rural Acton, Calif.,
packing is steeped in tradition. He and his father, Brooke, his mother,
Rebecca, and his four siblings would spend weekends, sometimes
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