The 4th Leith Explorer unit run a wide range of activities, but a notable feature of our program are our Trips and expeditions.

Each year we run a few weekend Adventure Activity trips within Scotland.
Accommodation is usually indoors and activities have included mountain biking at Laggan Wolftrax, skiing / snowboarding in the Cairngorms.
About every 18 months, we  have a Spring or Autumn expedition to The Netherlands, staying in a different Dutch city at an indoor hostel.
Explorers are fully involved in the planning of these trips with the leaders, and we look to them for assistance with researching activities, booking tickets and planning our travel throughout the trip.
We use public transport whenever possible, arriving in The Netherlands by ferry and travelling around the country by train and bus.
Leaders arrange some activities, such as a trip to one of Holland's excellent karting circuits, but some activities are planned fully by our explorers, such as a trip to tour the famous Ajax football stadium near Amsterdam.
The highlight of the explorer calendar is our summer trip Eastern Europe. Each year is planned to meet the needs and wishes of the explorers who are going, and again the leaders look to the explorers their ideas and assistance. The trip usually last about 2 weeks for most explorers, and up to 3 weeks for those who have just left school. It covers 3 or 4 different countries, travelling mostly by train, and staying in 2 or 3 man (or woman) tents for the duration. Food is on a self catering basis, purchased along the way, as you will be carrying everything you take yourself. (sorry, no hairdryers or travel-irons!)
The 2010 trip is currently being planned.

2009 Summer Trip

We don't have room here to tell you everything that happened on the 2009 trip, and many things that happen at camp, should stay at camp! but here are some of the highlights.
We flew to Praha in the Czech republic, where we camped for 3 days on an island in the Vltava river, before travelling to the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava. After several days there, we travelled onwards to Liptovsky Trnovec in the North of Slovakia at the foot of the Tatra mountains where visited the Tatralandia water theme park. We then took a Rack railway and bus over the Tatra mountains into Poland to the mountain town of Zakopane, where we watched the Slovenian Ski Jump team training for this years Winter Olympics. For the last leg of the trip we travelled to the city of Krakow. We visited the former concentration camp sites of Auschwitz and Birkenau. This was a sombre day for us all, but we all agree it was an intense and unforgettable experience.
We had another couple of days exploring the streets and markets of Krakow, before flying back home.