More shifting/hill questions

[Possegal]

So I'd suggest you stay in your middle chain ring until you need to shift then drop into the lowest chainring... hopefully you'll still have a couple more gears in the back when you do this in case it gets even steeper.

I just recently started doing it this way and I find it is helping me a lot actually.

[schnitzle]

That makes sense, thanks Biciclista and Possegal