Seattle FTF Bell

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Owner:: quigquay Message this owner
Released:: Friday, November 25, 2005
Origin:: Washington, United States
Recently Spotted:: In the hands of Qaz&Kids.

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Current Goal

This Trackable is found on the highly-competitive FTF (first-to-find a geocache) hunt in Seattle. The honor from finding the Seattle FTF Bell is immeasurable, and the bearers of this Bell should be accorded the respect and bragging rights due to these infamous cachers. Ideally, the Bell is displayed prominently by the tireless cacher while searching for those elusive FTFs. Some might say that this is to give the rest of us a chance, but truly this honor transcends such petty utilitarian goals.

This Trackable should stay with the finder, and be re-hidden (off-site as a FTF prize) in a new Seattle cache, ideally within two months of finding it. As it is meant to be found and logged with an FTF, please do not discover the Bell, but feel free to write a note. All members of a co-FTF team may log the Bell, of course. In addition, please no "visits" to caches because it clogs this page, but logging a visit to events is encouraged!

If you forsee that you are unable to place the Seattle FTF Bell in a new cache within Seattle in the suggested time period, please contact the owner (quigquay), and we will find someone who will be able to do so. You will remain on the list of finders, of course.

Seattle FTF Bell Honorees

6/13/25 - Gulliver_Snip
3/01/25 - B16TRAN and PippiLongStockings
5/28/24 - DM&K Cachers
12/28/23 - ChowzerZen and Qaz&Kids
10/27/23 - The Mercury Project and HMP No Ka Oi
8/31/23 - sahan
12/08/20 - PeacefulMountain and DM&K Cachers
12/11/19 - The Mercury Project and HMP No Ka Oi
9/29/18 - Qaz&Kids
2/03/18 - crs98
9/16/17 - BWelcker and gsbarnes
9/06/16 - PippiLongstockings
6/08/16 - crs98 and obarshay
9/26/15 - benandjayme and methylgrace
9/16/15 - lamoracke
2/27/15 - EFHutton
10/23/14 - marshall.md and methylgrace
6/10/14 - obarshay and Frisky Biscuits
4/10/14 - PippiLongstockings
2/21/14 - majorbonnet, gustibusti, and jcrocholl
10/28/13 - towtrkdug and RC64
12/26/12 - melicious and dugfresh
11/10/12 - methylgrace, Atomhugger, and gsbarnes
6/29/12 - ferguam
1/13/12 - FobesMan, >---^---:) , and crs98
12/04/11 - Curious Joe
9/17/11 - crs98, lamoracke, PepsiPrincess, AllUrCacheRBelong2Me
6/12/11 - PhilNi
2/24/11 - Dr. Tusk
2/04/11 - lamoracke, Honest_Servius, crs98 and EFHutton
12/25/10 - PhiNi
10/21/10 - DrTusk
7/25/10 - The ScottFamilyFive
1/19/10 - FunnyNose, HMP No Ka Oi, and The Mercury Project
12/15/09 - DrTusk and _Shaddow_
11/25/09 - TheScottFamilyFive
11/12/09 - towtrkdug
10/24/09 - Fish Soup & fishiam
9/22/09 - EFHutton, Shark, StinsonHQ and fishiam
8/25/09 - crs98 and baddog_777
8/17/09 - fishiam
5/14/09 - mgosho, rodgowdy and Team Maccabee
5/03/09 - Fish Soup and fishiam
4/23/09 - crs98
2/23/09 - Johnny Boy and DB Cooper, rodgowdy, FunnyNose, Fish Soup, fauxsteve, FrodoB, Markta, Harriet the Spy, and lamoracke
1/31/09 - >---^---:)
10/17/08 - tsunami_KNUW
8/10/08 - jcar
6/25/08 - Johnny Boy and DB Cooper
6/10/08 - Rey Del Roble
3/31/08 - Johnny Boy and DB Cooper
2/10/08 - OldBaldEagle and FrodoB
1/21/08 - mgosho
12/19/07 - rodgowdy
12/17/07 - fauxSteve
11/05/07 - Aviatrix22 and Lutehawk
8/22/07 - Javanut
8/01/07 - Nolenator
6/06/07 - The Mercury Project
5/09/07 - Fish Soup
4/10/07 - Nolenator
3/20/07 - The Mercury Project, FunnyNose & HMP No Ka Oi
3/03/07 - FluteFace
2/09/07 - Sassy&Gordy and Johnny Boy and DB Cooper
1/31/07 - Rey del Roble
1/10/07 - Johnny Boy and DB Cooper
1/08/07 - FunnyNose
8/16/06 - MiketheFiddler
5/12/06 - Blindleader
4/22/06 - Prying Pandora and CENT5
3/26/06 - The Mercury Project and FunnyNose
3/10/06 - 3 Headed Monster
2/21/06 - schulesjoe
2/20/06 - fishiam
2/10/06 - BHMP
1/24/06 - fauxSteve
1/09/06 - BHMP
12/18/05 - Markta
11/26/05 - OldBaldEagle, the FIRST FTF (FFTF) of the Bell!

About This Item

Happy Birthday Year, Seattle FTF Bell

Trackable Items on the Bell

Some of the trinkets that have been added to the Seattle FTF Bell are trackable, so I want to add a list of the trackable items.

Johnny Boy & DB Cooper Geocoin, added by Johnny Boy and DB Cooper on 1/30/07
FluteFace WSGA 2006 Geocoin #50 (not trackable online), added by FluteFace on 3/19/07
Groundspeak Lackey Geocoin, added by Aviatrix22 on 12/19/07
Old Bald Eagle's Birthday TB , added by OldBaldEagle on 3/30/08
jcar's Seattle UK Geocoin, added by jcar on 10/10/08
UW Huskies, FTW! TB, added by tsunami_KNUW on 1/30/09
Coin on the bell, added by >---^---:) on 2/17/09
crs98's WSGA Coin on the Bell, added by crs98 on 5/02/09
CONGRATULATIONS!, added by EFHutton on 10/23/09
Underwater Caching Geocoin, added by towtrkdug on 11/18/09
TheScottFamilyFive's Bell Hitchhiker, added by TheScottFamilyFive on 12/15/09
Shaddow's Rider, added by _Shaddow_ on 1/18/10
Ringa Ding Ding Ding Dong TB, added by The Mercury Project on 5/24/10
NUTS to TUS FTF Geocoin, added by HMP No Ka Oi on 5/24/10
Spring Duckling 2008 Geocoin, added by FunnyNose on 7/16/10
Lam's Compass Rose 2007 on the bell, added by lamoracke on 2/17/11
Joe's Caching Time (for the Bell) Geocoin, added by Curious Joe on 12/31/11
Fobes M9:Tunnel of Light Coin on the Bell, added by FobesMan on 6/29/12
Estacada Geocoin (Missing...) added by ferguam on 11/16/12
Oregon Ducks Travel Bug, added by Atomhugger on 12/12/12
R.I.P. Riley, added by RC64 on 12/29/13
Pippi's Bicycle/Bell Geocoin, added by PippiLongstockings on 6/05/14
Frisky Biscuits HQ Logbook, added by Frisky Biscuits on 6/30/14.
obarshay's Flying Finish on the Bell, added by obarshay on 10/23/14.
In a Nutshell, added by methylgrace on 2/23/15.
Hanse, added by majorbonnet on 2/23/15.
Wash Me, added by marshall.md on 2/23/15.
Hello Again!, added by EFHutton on 9/14/15
benandjayme's HQ Coin on the Bell, added by benandjayme on 5/20/16.
The Travel Slug Bug Geocoin, added by lamoracke on 6/09/16.
obarshay's Heavy Metal on The Bell, added by obarshay on 8/29/16
Prying Pandora's Bell Tag, added by Prying Pandora on 10/11/17
gsbarnes's Keychain on the Bell, added by gsbarnes on 2/01/18
Go Cougs! TUS Bell MidMountain Mountaineers Geocoin added by The Mercury Project on 12/08/20
PeacefulMountain's Ferry added by PeacefulMountain on 8/31/23
Cache Crate on the Bell, added by sahan on 11/02/23.
The Mercury Project and HMP No Ka Oi TUS Bell Mercury Dime TB. Go Cougs!, added by The Mercury Project on 11/27/23.
Yay for 25 Years of Geocaching!, added by ChowzerZen on 5/15/25.

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Tracking History (7899.7mi) View Map

5/20/2016	benandjayme posted a note for it		Visit Log
Also, we did attach a new coin to the bell to travel along. Happy travels!
5/20/2016	benandjayme posted a note for it		Visit Log
Life with a one year old has conspired to foil a couple plans that we had made to place a cache and get the Bell back out in the wild. Thus, we've ended up hanging on to it much longer than we ever intended to. Sorry for the delay. In the interest of getting it moving again, we returned it to lamoracke, who graciously agreed to place a new cache for it. Many thanks, lam!
9/30/2015	benandjayme took it to Geocaching Headquarters	Washington - 8.21 miles	Visit Log
Took the FTF bell to visit HQ!
9/26/2015	benandjayme retrieved it from Car Driving Games #2 (Bell Puzzle)	Washington	Visit Log
What an honor to finally hold the bell! We had a great time solving lamoracke's cache and sharing the FTF with methylgrace. Thanks for the fun!
9/20/2015	lamoracke placed it in Car Driving Games #2 (Bell Puzzle)	Washington - 2.96 miles	Visit Log

9/19/2015	Team Maccabee posted a note for it		Visit Log
Updated... any picture?
9/19/2015	lamoracke retrieved it from Finally...The Bell Puzzle!	Washington	Visit Log
Hey bud, time to update your bell page. FYI, the new bell puzzle will be published within a week. Fast turnaround, why not!
9/14/2015	EFHutton placed it in Finally...The Bell Puzzle!	Washington - 5.17 miles	Visit Log

3/6/2015	Team Maccabee posted a note for it		Visit Log
Updated the Bell page... how the heck can this thing get any BIGGER? Congratulations to all of you who have participated in the hunt for the last 9.5 years! May this 10th year have the best hunts yet!
2/28/2015	EFHutton retrieved it from Parts Unknown	Washington	Visit Log
Nice to see one of the original trackables placed on this iconic trophy! Part of the FTF Bell collection. Thanks!
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