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hippy
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I ran 1x on my touring/gravel bike and had no issues getting up some pretty big hills loaded up, I think i had a 40 - 11/36, but you can always go bigger on the back/smaller on the front. Set up with a bar end microshifter and never had any issues.
I eventually changed to a 2x not for the uphill, but to be able to send it back downhill faster and with a bar end shifter it was honestly the easiest thing I've ever set up.
In other words both can easily work but by the sounds of it you've pretty much already been riding 1x and seem set to go that route, so unless you want to hoof it downhill go with that... you can also always eventually change it