Orrest Head

Orrest Head is a hill within the English Lake District on the japanese seashores of Windermere. It is the difficulty of a bankruptcy in Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, and the primary fell he climbed. The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a book written via Alfred Wainwright, dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England. It differs from Wainwright's Pictorial Guides in that each of its fifty six chapters describes a walk, on occasion taking in several summits, as opposed to a single fell.

He describes it as "our first ascent in Lakeland, our first sight of mountains in tumultuous array across glittering waters, our awakening to splendor" and additionally as "a fitting finale, too, to a lifestyles made satisfied through fellwandering". On the summit is a landscape naming the important thing visible fells which include the Old Man of Coniston, Scafell Pike, Great Gable, Fairfield and the Langdale Pikes. Orrest Head is usually climbed at once from the town of Windermere near the station. Access is made made via a street which reaches most of the manner to the summit.