I purchase 2017 Salsa Mukluk Carbon X1 in January of 2017. I just turned 5,000 miles on her last Friday. Love the bike & use it primarily as a backcountry wandering tool - lots of jeep trails, some single track, gravel roads, irrigation ditch tracks & desert washes. Limited bikepacking (plan on more) but mostly day rides of 20 to 70 miles. Most of the miles are with a set of 27.5 x 3" Rocket Rons set up tubeless. The bike is light enough to easily lift over gates, fences, & washouts. If the hike-a-bike section gets rough & I need to carry her for a while, she slings over the shoulder easily. Currently, my other bike is a Salsa Cutthroat. The Cutthroat covers miles quicker as long as the surface is relatively firm, but nothing beats the Mukluk when I decide to turn down a wash and see where it goes.
I'd buy the same bike & run the same tires in a minute. In fact, this January I bought my wife the same bike & she's rediscovered wandering by pedal.
Howard Snell