For many Wabanaki people, Mount K'taadn, or Ktotonuk, is a profoundly spiritual place associated with tales of Pamola and Glooskap, and some people see Katahdin's ridges as the shape of a resting giant. In Wabanaki mythology, Pamola is a mysterious winged spirit, part bird and part man, who inhabits Katahdin, makes the night wind blow by flapping his wings, and can bring violent wind and snow storms, appearing suddenly with a whirring or whizzing sound from the summit. Penobscot Andrew Dana recalled that those who saw Pamola perceived him as almost resembling a man, with a narrow face, a slender body about the width of two hands, and legs, arms, and wings seeming attached together at a single point, and that he was not vulnerable to an arrow. The view also overlooks an ancient Indian Carry Trail, a 3-mile portage from Baskahegan Stream to Grand Lake used for thousands of years as part of the Maliseet Trail, a Wabanaki canoe route linking the ocean and the Penobscot with the St. John and St. Croix rivers. Travelers carried canoes and gear between Cleaves Landing on Baskahegan Stream and Davenport Cove on East Grand Lake, and the route served trapping, trading, and connections among Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac or Mi'kmaq, and Maliseet people. In 1798, Passamaquoddy Chief Francis Joseph Neptune drew a map of the Maliseet Trail, and in 1820 Joseph Treat, guided by Penobscot John Neptune, drew a map of this carry. Today, enthusiasts from Canada and the U.S. are working to retrace the historic route through maps, land surveys, oral histories, and on-the-ground exploration. In 1836, Maine commissioned geologist Charles T. Jackson to explore and inventory its public lands along this route, and his expedition's artist recorded this view. Samuel Cleaves, born in Wales in 1795, settled near Baskahegan Stream in 1827, left Weston for California during the Gold Rush, later returned to Maine, and gave his name to Cleaves Landing.