From: D [anonymous]

Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 08:30:31 EDT

Subject: Flour Alternatives - from L

To: [anonymous group]



L sent me the following as suggested ways to set trail without using flour 

in these days of concern about any white powdery substance (Thanks, L).



note to Papoose: please copy the "restricted list" on this, as we have many 

hares on that list note to R: OK, so I didn't now that that type of "poster paint" existed. . .your version is sure different than that which I buy my kids for school projects!!



- D

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Hi D,



Sounds like the Anthrax scare is making life difficult for many hashes in 

the U.S. On the Samurai Hash here in Japan, we use a mixture of sawdust and 

flour with perhaps a bit of shredded paper thrown in. Depending on where the 

sawdust came from, the color ranges from light tan to brown. The flour makes 

it stick better in case of rain and makes it more visible when marking off 

pavement.



The Malaysian hashes use squares of paper (~ 2" x 2") with the hash logo 

stamped on them. I guess they don't have much wind there.



I used to use an extremely dense and bright orange paint powder (water 

based) cut 1:3 with flour in Korea. It washed away okay but raised a lot 

more eyebrows than when I used flour.



I've also seen hashes use crushed breakfast cereal (the really bright 

colorful stuff) mixed with flour. This is expensive and you have to worry 

about dogs [hahaha] eating the hash!



Hope you come up with a solution.



On-on,

L