Have you thought about birch syrup? Here's a source:
http://www.alaskabirchsyrup.com/abbisy.html
Birch syrup is much tougher to make than maple syrup - maple has a 40:1 ratio of sap to finished syrup, birch is more like 100:1.
I don't know much about hickory syrup, except I'd assume it's pretty similar to pecan syrup.