I ran a 2.2 and 2.4 black chili mountain king combo for a while. Horrendous in the wet, just about adequate in the dry. Nothing like fast enough to make up for the lack of grip. Never again.
Just put a set of black chili Rubber Queens on the hemlock, very different kettle of fish. Oh, one thing, tubelessing the non-UST ones is hard going, they're incredibly porous. But, that aside they're great. Not as much grip as, say, a 2.35 Nevegal stick-e but faster, on roots and rocks they're fantastic. Not so great when leaned over in slightly loose stuff, but still decent. Very tall which makes for a lot of air volume, I'm not sure I'm going to stick with them in the longterm but I'm going to try the 2.2 in the back of the Soul just to see how all that extra air feels in a hardtail. I would say though that in most ways they act like a smaller tyre- they don't have the grip you'd expect when you see the tread and size, but then they're much faster than you'd expect too.
They're not the second coming as some people reckon, but they're far and away the best conti tyre I've used, they've finally got something that can compete with Maxxis and Kenda.