Hickory Creek

Not too many folks pay attention to Hickory creek, but it does deserve notice. Unfortunatly, the gauge is going to be shut down, and so I have been trying to work out some corelations.
Just to the north and parallel to Hickory is Long Run Creek running through Lemont. Erik, Rich and myself ran it one day and it was fun but not worth doing again. However, it does have a USGS gauge that is not losing it's funding.
After expanding the USGS graphs of both creeks to 60 days, I noticed that both creeks have VERY similar patterns, and they showed two easy relationships. Hickory reads about ten feet higher than Long Run, and has about three times the flow. These are not exact, but pretty close considering how simple they are.
And as far as flows go, we scraped down at 175 cfs once, it was still fun but I would call that a minimum. At 700, there was some good play at the Squeeze, a formation at the top of the Concrete Canyon.