From the Chilkat River to Kusawa Lake. Map courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkley.

This month, Haines residents Tim Ackerman and Mike Bott will embark on a nearly 200-mile route mapped out by legendary Klukwan chief Kohklux exactly 150 years ago. The men say that this will be the first time in 128 years that a traverse of the trail will be documented.

In the basement of the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall,…