odd. I recall the feeding each other thing happening after the 4 day solo on the wilderness challenge. Maybe they moved it to the summit after the expeditions changed.
In my summit, they did do the urban challenge. I hated it. It was the stupidest fucking thing ever. But we didn't go to Bonners Ferry, we went to Spokane. I didn't finish all of my requirements, so I had to go back weeks later after the summit was over with other people who hadn't finished it and complete it. It was very embarassing. If I had had a clue, I would have just kicked back and used that money playing video games at the arcade at the mall the whole time, and then come back into the summit and lied and said I completed the challenge.
The thing that sucked the most about the urban challenge was that you couldn't tell these strangers you went up to that you were being made to do this, so people just thought you were nuts, or a loser who was really lonely (unless you had a lot of finesse and could come off really natural at casual conversation with strangers.) If you did tell them, then you were automatically out of agreement, and you would have to do the assignment over. And I was so socially stupid anyway, I just made myself look stupider. One of the people I talked to basically confronted me outright and said "You're really lonely, aren't you?"
Some of the requirements were really weird. Like, you had to exchange phone numbers and addresses with someone, you had to buy someone lunch (one guy in my peer group had the right idea about this requirement, he bought food for a homeless guy. That idea didn't even occur to me. I stayed inside the mall the whole time. I didn't even realize we could have gone outside.) I remember one of the easier ones were to talk to someone of the opposite sex. (Which in my case, got a result of an incredulous "How am I DOING?
?" and then them getting up and storming away.)
I'm surprised nobody in the history of the summit got abducted or at least punched. Maybe that's why they stopped doing it, because the potential for a mishap was just too high.