Lehman Creek gets its start in Teresa and Stella Lakes which are in turn fed by snow and glacier melt. The lakes are actually basins called tarns that were scooped out by glaciers thousands of years ago. They sit inside the moraines of rock left by the retreating glaciers.

Stella Lake - a tarn or cirque lake

Teresa Lake - a tarn

Click here to see a QuickTime movie of Lehman Creek and Teresa Lake.

Click here to see an example of a tarn.

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