Pat,
Thanks for the info and we'd love to talk with you more. Can you shoot us an email? We've had some dialog with Aaron C. over the past month and he seems to think there is a short hiking trail connecting the two FSRs on the west bench of the Wigwam River (see yellow trace on map). If true, it would mean no fording, which is key for June snowmelt flows. We hope to ground-verify this somehow when the snow melts. Although we hear NCC's Mt. Broadwood/lower Wigwam (Flats) route (orange trace) is very scenic, we would love to exit the Valley over the Galton Pass (Phillips FSR) so as to avoid the 35 miles of pavement (from Elko to Roosville).
Cheers,
TD
Aaron