PaCT books and zines are now available from is PRESS. See below for descriptions.
PaCT documents a 23 year, two-part journey with an art show, a zine, a photo-animated flip book, and a 263 page art-book and memoir – all by Peter Miles Bergman. In 1996 at the age of 23, Peter and Dylan Kuhn set out to hike the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. Burned out, injured, and broke after 90 days and 1,750 miles they quit in Oregon with a pact to return for the remaining 900 miles when they were twice as old. In 2019 they reconvened at 46 to reflect on life’s journey, and race increasingly threatening storms towards Canada.
Left: Two 23 year olds at the southern terminus of the PCT in 1996 – thinking they’re going to hike 2760 miles to Canada, ignorant of how busted they’ll be when they quit in Oregon and form their PaCT to return in 23 year to complete the remaining 900 miles twice as old. Right: Two 46 year olds (actually Dylan is 47 in the pic) at the northern terminus of the PCT.
Dylan swimming freezing runoff buck naked in the Sierras in 1996.
Dylan taking the high road above a raging torrent in the Cascades in 2019.
PaCT media and press:
Project website: pact.report
Project instagram: @pact.report
The Outsiders Blog: An Outsiders Interview with Artist & Hiker… Peter Bergman
The Tenent Podcast: Ep. 117 Peter Miles Bergman – Conceptual Artist, PaCT: A Journey Beyond the Horizon
Backpacker Radio Podcast: Ep. 142 Peter Bergman
The PaCT Pack available now (or in separate pieces) from is PRESS.
PaCT Books and Zines:
PaCT: A Journey Beyond the Horizon is authored and designed by is PRESS publisher Peter Miles Bergman. is PRESS, 1st edition 2022, Edition of 303 – signed and numbered. Denver, Colorado.
PaCT: A Journey Beyond the Horizon is a 264 page, 6.5 x 9″ perfect bound book. PaCT documents a 23 year, two-part journey with this 263 page art-book and memoir, a photo-animated flip book, with photos by Dylan Kuhn, and a zine – all by Peter Miles Bergman.
In 1996 at the age of 23, Peter and Dylan Kuhn set out to hike the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. Burned out, injured, and broke after 90 days and 1,750 miles they quit in Oregon with a pact to return for the remaining 900 miles when they were twice as old. In 2019 they reconvened at 46 to reflect on life’s journey, and race increasingly threatening storms towards Canada.
Part travelogue and part memoir, this expressively designed book weaves three non-linear text threads together into a portrait of an artist coming of age, drifting waywardly into middle age, and the profound friendship that kept him focused on staying sane, and getting sober, in order to complete their pact.
PaCT: A Journey Beyond the Horizon is digitally printed at Turbo Press, Denver, CO on two alternating paper stocks signifying the different eras of the story: French 80# parchtone paper for 1996 and 100# uncoated white digital Cougar paper for 2019. The covers are a 2-color letterpress printed by the author / designer on a Chandler and Price Letterpress at is PRESS, Denver, CO.
Read an Excerpt of PaCT: A Journey Beyond the Horizon
PaCT: A Journey Across Time is authored and designed by is PRESS publisher Peter Miles Bergman with photography by Dylan Kuhn. is PRESS, 1st edition 2020, (first offered for sale 2022) Edition of 303 – signed and numbered. Denver, Colorado.
PaCT: A Journey Across Time is a 266 page, 2.5 x 6.5 x 1.5″ thick perfect bound photo-animated flip book.
The animation is of a lone figure stopping to pause for a snapshot before tossing a graduation cap, and instantaneously changing into a suit while 1,700 miles across California race by behind him followed by with the same figure – 23 years older – pausing before waving and walking off into the distance as 900 miles of Oregon and Washington race by. Opposite pages from the photos show the location where the photo was taken on stylized black and white maps.
PaCT: A Journey Across Time is digitally printed on 10-pt cast coated cover stock at Turbo Press, Denver, CO.
PaCT: A Journey Across Time – available as a limited edition flip book.
MAN MADE: A Journey Through the In Between is by is PRESS publisher Peter Miles Bergman. is PRESS, 1st edition 2019, Edition of 505– signed and numbered. Denver, Colorado. We are currently selling numbers 182-505.
MAN MADE is a 36 page, 6 x 8″ saddle-stitched zine with a letterpress masthead and back cover! MAN MADE documents a 2009, 535 mile 31 day walk across Wyoming on the Continental Divide Trail with Dylan Kuhn and Ann Fish Kuhn with a forward about a 2006 attempt to end an 11 year stint not flying by skydiving and an afterword about a 250 mile walk from Denver to Mount Holy-Cross in central Colorado.
MAN MADE also contains a zine-within-a-zine that includes a report and photo essay documenting “man made” detritus and infrastructure in central Wyoming – the least populated part of the US.
MAN MADE is laser printed on white 100# gloss text and French 80# parchment paper and hand sewn with black thread. The covers are printed on 80# gloss cover with a letterpress masthead and back cover printed in copper ink on a Chandler and Price Letterpress at is PRESS, Denver, CO.
PaCT Exhibitions:
Currently on display as part of Collective Nouns at the Center for Visual Art,
Through August 13th 2022 | 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204.
Previously on display as a book release & solo show at Dateline Gallery
March 2022 | 3004 Larimer St, Denver, CO
