I just bought some tires for my recoil and im kind of on a budget so i got these. Kinda late know to ask your opinion but meh , if any one has had any of these what are they like on loose gravel and mud/wet mud and roots. The tracks here are mainly like that so...

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=26909

Verticals are awful, avoid.  Too big/tall casing for their weight so flex alot.

Barracuda's arn't that bad, but by no means good, the ones i had on my bike, had silly thin side walls and punctured every 5 seconds, grip wise the compound seemed hard, and they seemed to work well out back, though you couldn't properly rag it on the back else you'd get a puncture.

I've got verticals on my bike. Not gonna buy them again. They might well have grip over roots and the like but they sure as hell don't inspire confidence.

considered 2.35 High rollers? Light, fast, pretty grippy too. I run one of those up front (I did run one on the rear but kept getting pinch punctures) and it was pretty good.

My Verticals have been brilliant. Taken them down Inners and Fort William, and only had 3 punctures in total, and they could have been prevented with a DH tube. At Inners they were better than the Minions that a friend was running, so much so that I was only a few seconds slower than him (him being on a Yeti DH9 and me on a Giant STP).