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Just skate like your on a flat surface but put a little bit more pressure on your edges. Also use your poles for help. You should be hauling tail uphill in no time. Peace
Look for bits of terrain, or best of all find an established herringbone track that you can glide off of. If you can get your ski to be actually gliding downhill, yet still propel yourself forward and upward, you'll be golden. It sounds counter-intuitive, but give it a shot. This technique also works for sidestepping uphill as well.
Maybe the key is in the edges, which provide a platform you can then push really hard from (powering off the flexed knee with you quads). The key to setting that edge is tilting the ski far enough, by tipping inwards with one knee at a time. LEGS ARE POWERFUL (your arms are needed like a speed skater, to punch alternately diagonally forward. All these moves can be refined into great 3-dimensional skiing) Take a lesson and get the instructor to help, because driving off each skated ski is really connected to powerful turns as well. Do you dry land lunges, or lateral stepping up stairs. (I go up 6 flights at work on the back stairs, lead two steps, then braid one with the bottom leg)
You neglected to mention they type of skis you're using. If you are talking alpine skiing, the first answer seems to fit. If you can skate across flat terrain, you should be able to skate up small inclines and small hills with no problem.
If you are talking about skate skiing, that should be mentioned in the title.
Double pole-push is my preferred method, and if it is long and tiring, try poling between your legs (1 pole at a time), just to change the muscle groups. Then go back to double poling.
Also, you don't always have to go straight up.
Go watch the girls at the Nordic center do it on icy hills without the benefit of metal edges. Maybe even take a lesson. The benefit of this is that if you don't know what they are doing you can always just watch the girls. Incidentaly most of the skiers at the Nordic centers are women. Healthy women.
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