Wainwright's Walking Guide to the Lake District Fells - Book 6 The Western Fells

13.27 Our return route is visible between the two crags - Bell Rib on the right and the lower Dropping Crag on the left.

13.45 A map check at the second gate but we still managed to take the wrong path shortly after this and had to retrace our steps for 50m.

15.51 The Scafells appear above Yewbarrow.

Note for walkers - On this picture you can just make out the line of the path that we later took up the side of Yewbarrow, on the scree to the right of centre.This path was difficult to spot from the main path we had used to walk from the car park. The path is not marked on the OS map or app. However it was clearly marked on my Lake District app and from Dore Head where it starts it was quite easy to find. The path was clear all the way and although it crosses that bit of scree at one point it was otherwise straight-forward to follow and took us to the saddle of Yewbarrow in about 20 minutes. Wainwright mentions this path with some disdain in Red Pike (W) Ridge Routes !

If there are no witnesses about to tell of their shame, timid walkers may avoid Stirrup Crag entirely by taking the Overbeck path from Dore Head then turning off left on a thin path
which - via a stony zigzag beneath a line of low cliffs - slants up to the depression on Yewbarrow.  

A summit feature that often escapes attention nowadays is an outcrop of rock that has as been converted into a comfortable seat by the erection of a backrest and side arms of stones.
This is the chair and a century ago was so well known that people spoke of climbing to the chair as today they speak of climbing Red Pike. 

It is a feather in Yewbarrow’s cap that all four of the Lakeland’s 3,000 footers can be seen from its modest summit, but this is a freak of its position and not an indication that the view is everywhere extensive.