This Tahoe Truckee hike is a meditation on Jeffrey pine and sagebrush FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 2of3 3of3 Elizabethtown Meadows is a trail hidden in plain sight. I’ve driven past the trailhead countless times, but I didn’t know the trail existed until a former colleague, who now works at the Tahoe Donner Land Trust, told me about it. The trail begins near Northstar and heads north, traversing a gentle slopeside of Jeffrey pines and large alpine meadows for a couple of miles until it connects to a larger trail system at Waddle Ranch in Martis Valley. While Tahoe’s higher elevations a...