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We had a few hundred kms of occasionally very rough gravel in NCT and Kai rode it with 25's. But it's risky and you'd be just trying to survive, while on the big tyres you'd be stoked shredding the gnar brraap
Anyway, there's many wide tyres that are probably fine, but they all seem to lack something. That conti gp urban and the teravail both seem very good, though 60tpi isn't that racy, though it's not the whole truth and probably tougher.
I did a 300 and 400 brevet recently with the hypers, didn't seem slow compared to others I was riding with. And hypers feel like road tyres, while for example the reasonably well rolling continental contact speed felt big and heavy compared to them.