In reply to Avinash Aujayeb:
> Thanks. I am not discounting that best way is to go uphill with a big bag, and yes I do that, but I cannot do that every week - work and life gets in the way- after all as I said, I am only an amateur mountaineer.
Well, carry a heavy rucksack all the time then!
(seriously, I can carry heavy rucksacks up mountains all day, but when my wife injured her back recently, i would often have to take her handbag off her while shopping together. It was so heavy, my back started aching after a few minutes, main reason being it has only one strap over one shoulder. and she carries it round all day, at work or play).
We're all amateur mountaineers, and as someone once said, hills are only as steep as you want them to be.