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 highest peaks in each county and I thought that would be a good goal to go for,” Kent Stanford said. “For me, it was going to a new area and searching out the beauties in that new area. … It was just the solitude and beauty of being up there. But I let everyone know my plan when I left.”

He has been hiking since he was

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