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Kent Stanford, 75, recently completed a goal of hiking the highest peaks in each Utah county.

He began on July 4,1994, finishing July 31.

Stanford plans to hike to the bottom of Grand Canyon next, emphasizing the importance of staying active and healthy as he ages.

OGDEN — Kent Stanford is not the kind of guy who likes to sit back and do nothing with his free time, not after he was an Ogden firefighter and certainly not in retirement.

So, even though it may have come as a surprise to some when the 75-year-old decided to hike the tallest peak in each county in Utah, that wasn't the case for anyone he was close to, including family.

They just wanted him to achieve his goal — carefully.

"I found a book ... and I found a checklist of the h

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