I arrived at Lilly lake trailhead late at night so I camped at the trailhead and started hiking in the morning. I followed lily lake trail until the trail split and since I had hiked lily lake trail before I followed the river so I could check out the old mine. After spending some time checking out the mine and searching the surrounding area for other abandoned mining tools and equipment I followed the river basin up until finding a suitable camp site in the trees below lily lake. After a good night's rest and some breakfast I scrambled towards Ellingwood points north ridge until the scree nearly turns into a wall. I have climbed the east face of the north ridge twice and there is no marked route but by starting farthest south on the saddle and following the most obvious route it may not exceed class 3 but many routes up this face would likely be rated higher. The face has some exposure and is full of loose rock. Once gaining the ridge follow the ridge towards summit keeping the ridge towards your left as I approached obstacles near summit I worked around towards the west avoiding some steep terrain with lots of exposure this kept it a comfortable scramble until I was on the summit. I dropped down Ellingwood towards Lake Como and took a break and Cooked a meal before climbing Blanca peak. I returned towards Ellingwood point and found a spot flat enough to sleep around 13200. The next morning was 1000ft to Ellingwood after reaching summit again I decided I didn't want to down climb the sketchy east face of the north ridge with my heavy pack and pounding headache, In fact altitude was kicking my butt and I just wanted to drop elevation fast. I took the north west ridge following that route to south zapata lakes and followed that trail taking a few breaks to eat and rehydrate. Needing to get back to my truck I decided my best route was to drop elevation until I could find the trail heading up the north fork of South zapata creek for California peak. The trail for California peak was poorly marked and had no traffick making a beautiful hike. I decided to break off trail and head east at a waterfall somewhere around 12000. This may have been a mistake but I haven't taken the rest of the trail so idk the climb was lose rock unstable ground steep and long before flattening out a bit into a high alpine prairie. I climbed to about 13400 then kept the same elevation heading north until I found a suitable place to drop back down into the upper Huerfano Valley from here I took the most direct route traveling north east to the lily lake trail head. I came out of the trees only 80 yards from my truck as an afternoon storm brought some light rain. Seeing as how the trail head was packed full of campers for the holiday weekend I quickly changed my clothes grabbed my snacks for the way out and started down the 4x4 road back to town.