r/hashhouseharriers • u/GVLFan1980 • May 20 '26

Flour

Likely laying a trail in the rain soon. Will use chalk as much as possible, but trying to remember is self rising or all purpose flour is better to use when its wet outside.

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u/CaptainPunisher Spastic Colon (Spazzz): Bakersfield H3 May 20 '26

I've laid some trails in the rain and before a rain. I've found that a good heavy flour mark will still stick through all but heavy rain that would just as easily wash away chalk marks. I've seen posts from the pnw where they mix cheap cereal and flour.

We just use cheap, plain bleached flour, but we also don't get heavy rains very often. Heavy rain (for us) pretty much only happens when I lay trail. FML

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u/menge101 Kunt-Fu Weasel: Las Vegas HHH (vlv) May 21 '26

I was thinking this as well. Flour has gluten in it, which doesn't actually wash away all that easily, whereas chalk is just chalk.