The photo above shows a small end moraine associated with the glacier at the base of Clements Mountain. The topographic map shows the relief of the glacier using blue contour lines, and the snout end is marked with a dashed blue line. The end moraine appears on the map as brown speckles. In this photo we are looking towards the southwest, thus we see the northernmost part of the moraine shown on the map. End moraines generally stretch across the entire snout end of a glacier, however, as a glacier retreats, meltwater flowing out from the glacier may erode away parts of the end moraine giving it a discontinuous appearance (as in this example). There is no camera on the map to show where the picture was taken from because this location is off the map.

The moraine deposits in this second photo were created by Sperry Glacier when it was larger than at the time the photo was taken. These moraine deposits clearly show on the topographic map as lines of brown speckles. The end moraines provide us with an indication of the former size of the glacier. In places, rivers have eroded through the end moraine, creating breaks in the ridge. Although many end moraines form as ridges stretching across alpine valleys, these ridges are slowly dissected and eroded by present-day streams. Eventually, streams may completely obliterate the moraines. If we could get a closer view of these end moraines, we would find they are unsorted, containing a wide range of particles sizes all mixed together.