Identifying Hickory Trees in winter

Big orange leaves on the ground. The will be a leaf of three kind of looks like poison ivy.
Should have some hickory nuts on the ground as well.

I can't do it in the winter. Up here there are 50 kinds of hickories, too. The shagbark is the only one I know I'm right about. The red oaks here, and even in LA from what I recall, are only now dropping leaves. They turned brown a long time ago, but they don't fall right away for whatever reason.

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The diagonal bark patterns are what clue me in, but typically it’s the nuts on the ground.

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Can you easily tell the nuances between those and the "chevron" style ash bark? I plan to study this in the summer.

Put a climbing stand on them. If you fall back to the ground when you climb, it’s a hickory.

You must be a squirrel hunter? Like posted above, just kick around in leaves under large trees looking for the black hulls and uneaten nuts. Good luck.

Here are two types of hickory:

I think it’s a red hickory but not sure:


Shaggy bark:


Ground under (zoom in)