I don't care for hills in general especially one particular short and very steep hill. However I climb about a 2 mile stretch with about a 6% grade when I ride to the Zoo, and this might sound strange, but as I'm pedaling there comes a point where I can actually relax my quads and, it seems, I actually use LESS effort to get up that hill! Maybe I tense up my quads at the beginning of the hill then relax them along the way. It seems counterintuitive to relax muscles that I am actively using, but it happens. I literally tell myself, "relax your legs" and that difficult pedaling immediately becomes less difficult. Not sure what all that means but it works for me. It's as though all that extra tension in my legs was simply wasted energy.