Man, I DO live in heaven here - could not think of any better place to be (... said it before, the Austrian board of tourism should pay me for the praising of my homecountry I constantly do here )
Btw.: On todays skitour I had my "medium Salt" with me... (small being the Salt 2, large Waterway) - pic below.
/ On LC vs VG10: Hard to say.
I have only 2 LC knives: The Salt 2 SE, which I actually don´t use very often - it is a perfect, superlight just in case hiking and mountaineering folder, but when I foresee cutting tasks (and be it only minor food prep) in the outdoors I bring a larger folder (Pac Salt most of the time).
And the Waterway, which I actually carry a lot less, but use a lot more.
Just intuitively and non scientificly I prefer VG10 though.
In my use it is just as rust proof as LC, and I feel like it has a bit better edge retention (again, just on a gut level).
I also could not experience that it would be less though than LC (which VG10 actually IS though, according to Larrins charts) - or could not make use of this so far (for example by trying if LC could take a steeper edge angle).
And I can´t really explain or even phrase this, but I like "better" how VG10 feels on the sharpmaker rods - in a way "harder", though actually that´s not the right term, but I can´t think of any better right now (and in English... )