suggestion for future hares
Hello fellow hashers!
I wanted to give you some advice: the hares here in Rome put the flour inside bottles (dry and empty of course) using a funnel, which are easier to carry and to use when setting the hash! You then close them, but make a hole on the cap of the bottle, then to release the flour you just have to either move the bottle or press it.
Even though I have to admit I just looooove to be covered in white stains as a distinctive sign of being a hare.... But for people who are normal, it might be nice to have found a way to be a hare and still be clean!!!!
I set the hash the other day here in Rome, with 17/20 from Australia who has hashed in many countries, and I commented about the concern some people in Almaty have voiced about spilling flour (equivalent to food) on the floor. Well, there is a very simple replacement material for whenever it is not windy: shredded paper!!! You just need to have many hashers working in offices that use shredders, and gather the bags of shredded paper. In the example 17/20 gave me, the office was an embassy which made sure the shredder was super good, I don't remember the measurement of the shredded piece but you have to be sure that anyone finding the small bits of paper and with nothing else better to do would not be able to reconstruct the originals!
The good thing about the shredded paper, is that when it rains it does not dissolve and disappear, but converts into a very noticeable solid blob!
ON ON!

re flour concern
Try bird seed or colored bird seed shows up in the snow
bird seed as flour or paper replacement
yeah, sure, sounds nice....... but that is Hansel and Gretel's story all over again, or any other children's story, that they went in the woods and put something to find they way back (bird seeds, bread crumbs...) and in the end either the birds or the ants eat that, and you just end up being lost!!!
Actually I would love to get lost again in the hills surrounding Almaty...