Thursday Travel Ticker: Pick your piano

British artist Luke Jerram’s “Play Me, I’m Yours” piano installation, which has been touring the world since 2008, is coming to Los Angeles for three weeks, featuring 30 pianos in public places around the city. Sponsored by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, it begins April 12 with 30 pianists performing Bach preludes simultaneously. For additional info, call (213) 622-7001, Ext. 221, or visit www.streetpianosLA.com . . . . That scenic stretch of Highway 1 from Cambria to Carmel has been closed by a rock slide. Caltrans has not set a reopening time . . . . Bear Mountain and Mountain High are sitting pretty for spring break after recent storms dropped several feet of snow. Mammoth is reporting 5 inches of new snow atop a 6-foot base, with skies clearing on Friday . . . . A major elk herd that migrates between Yellowstone National Park and Montana suffered a 10% drop in numbers last year due to a hard winter, predator attacks and hunting, state and federal scientists said this week. That follows a 24% drop in 2011. The northern Yellowstone elk herd is down to about 4,174 animals . . . . The ninth annual Downtown Truckee Wine, Walk & Shop has been set for Oct. 6. For more info: www.truckeefrc.org . . . . Travel quote of the day: “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” ( Linda Hogan)