Originally Posted By: AKSAR
Originally Posted By: MDinana
Fortunately, not too many bears in areas that regularly hit 120-130.

I think the risk isn't so much the outside (ambient) temperature, but rather the temperature inside the car. As we all have observed, cars parked in the sun act like a greenhouse, and can get much hotter than the outside temperature.

On summer days in interior Alaska the ambient temperature can sometimes get well into the nineties. It would be much hotter inside a car parked in the sun. There are lots of bears in interior Alaska.

There are also bears in Montana, Wyoming, and elswhere. Does it ever get hot in parked cars in those states???

While my comment was somewhat in jest, bear spray doesn't really belong in a car, does it? If a bear gets you, it won't patient wait as you run to your car then come back.

If you're leaving it in the car, well, like an earlier poster said, most aerosols have that warning.