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hippy
'Same gear' is what I consider the spirit of fixed gear but everyone has their own opinion. For me it's picking the right gear for the ups, the flat and the downs. I don't consider a S3X as "true" fixed gear for example.
If you get your spinning sorted out then you can gear down a bit. On hilly rides I've ridden both gears and fixed I've ended up walking the same bits regardless of the bike I'm on (mostly 18%+ stuff in that there Wales). The power input is the same after all (although efficiency is much less at lower rpm), it's just how well you can balance, tack, and wrench the bars about at <25rpm rather than sitting and spinning at 90rpm+.