Workshops Checklist and Terms
Thank you for your interest in the Alpine Workshops. Below is a list of workshop logistics to plan your travel and stay for the workshop. Our goal is to work behind the scene to maximize your workshop time with smooth logistics. Please review below and contact us if you have any questions.
This section is updated on 2025-11-18.
Please see the Payments, Cancellations, and Forfeiture Terms section #9 below for the payment schedule and refundable dates.
A note on COVID
We have stopped using the COVID health questionnaires and disclosure forms. COVID vaccination is not a requirement to the attendance to our workshops. Facilities, city, and businesses surrounding our workshop may have their own COVID requirements that are not in our control.
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Workshop Dates
Once registered with a required deposit, you will be sent a workshop confirmation via email. If no email is available, we can fax or mail it to you.
Our Advanced Joinery workshops and Window and Door workshops are 4-days workshops.
You can expect to arrive one day before the workshop begins, and depart one day after the workshop. Usually, the workshop ends at about 4 to 5 pm daily, depending on the attendees' needs. And you may want to plan for at least 3 hours to include traveling to the airport for your flight. Please take this into your consideration for your outgoing flight.
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Flights
Montrose Airport (MTJ) is about 50 minutes away from the workshop / hotel. Before you finalize and book a flight, you may want to put your itinerary on hold and contact us by email or (888) 925-7999. We then can advise you whether we will be able to provide you ground transportation among all the folks arriving. Depending on everyone's schedule, we should have no problem arranging a pickup at MTJ airport one day before the workshop.
On the way out, if you are flying out of MTJ, we likely will be able to drop you off on the day AFTER the last day of the workshop. Again, it would be best if you find a flight that fits your schedule, put it on hold, and contact us before booking it.
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Ground Transportation
If you are flying into Montrose Airport (MTJ) for just the workshop, there should be no need for you to rent a car.
We are able to do pick-ups from MTJ to the hotel the day before the first day of the workshop, and we will be able to drop you off back at MTJ the morning after the last day of the workshop. During the class days, the workshop is a 10‐minute drive from the hotel. We will be able to drive everyone to/from the hotel. Lunch is usually riding together into a nearby town (Ridgway). Dinner is usually by the hotel. And they are walking‐distance (within a mile) from the hotel with a slight hill. It's a short walk or car ride after getting freshened up after a day's workshop.
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Lodging
We have reserved a block of room in advance to ensure there is a hotel room for each attendee. The check-in / check-out dates are one day before and after the scheduled workshop.
Due to our preferred rate and a smaller town, we've agreed with the hotel that refund is not available once the free cancellation date is passed. Our workshop also requires a minimum attendee count for its designed lowest unit cost and experience. Once the eight (8) weeks non-refundable date is passed, we regret we will not be able to refund the workshop dues and hotel fees. We encourage our attendees to obtain travel insurance for unforeseen circumstances.
If you choose to stay at our reserved block of rooms, please do not contact the hotel directly. We will work with you on the room assignment and subsequently add the hotel room cost to your final invoice eight (8) weeks before your registered workshop. We will pay the hotel our special block rate. You will be invoiced for the workshop fees and hotel cost along with any fees such as hotel taxes before the eight (8) weeks non-refundable cutoff date.
Should you choose to stay elsewhere or need a different check-in/out itinerary, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can cancel those rooms reserved for the workshops without penalties, which is eight (8) weeks before the first night of a stay. As long as your hotel is within a few miles (within Ouray), we can still keep the same ground transportation plans without renting another vehicle.
Ouray is a smaller town and has older buildings. Please assume the hotel has no elevators and wheelchair access, and each room will have one bed and one bathroom. If you have any specific requirements and accessibility needs, please contact us at info@alpineworkshops.com or 888-925-7999. We will find ways to accommodate your needs.
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Meals
All meals are usually gathered by the whole group. Breakfast will be on the way from the hotel to the workshop; Joe joins the lunches and occasional dinners.
Typical Schedule:
Meet between 7:00 and 7:45 am in the hotel lobby, depending on the day. Grab a breakfast and head to workshop by 8 or 8:30 am.
Lunch is around noon or 1 pm, depends on everyone.
Workshop ends about 5 to 6 pm, depending on everyone's need.
Dinner is at 6 or 7 in town by the hotel.
We will communicate with everyone real time. Meal and entertainment costs are excluded in the workshop fee.
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Workshop Material
You will be receiving an electronic copy of the binder about a few days before the workshop. We will also give you a photocopy of the same binder on the first day of the workshop. This includes material that our instructor will cover in the workshop and additional links and resources that may come in handy for your future operations. Some folks like to bring their tablet devices such as iPad to take notes or pull up any catalog questions.
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Workshop Environment
The workshop takes place in a live workshop in a scenic country'side type environment. It's a relaxing yet productive environment with limited amount of students so that everyone gets to learn, ask questions and share experiences. We are also around to support any logistical need while the instructor goes through the workshop. Your workshop dress attire should be causal yet protective, such as long pants, sturdy shoes, tied up long hair to prevent you from cuts and accidents that may occur in a wood shop. Goggles, gloves and earplugs are provided in the workshop, or you may bring your own preferred safety wear. You may participate in running some of the machines and in the assembling process.
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Special Needs
If you have any special need, such as physical access, please let us know, and we can see how we can accommodate your needs.
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Payments, Cancellations, and Forfeiture Terms
• A $500 deposit is to reserve a workshop spot by a Visa or MasterCard, an online pay-by-cheque, or on https://alpineworkshops.com/register. This deposit is refundable up to ninety (90) days before the first day of the originally registered workshop. Please cancel your workshop before this non-refundable date by emailing info@alpineworkshops.com. To receive a refund, please confirm with us with your communication before this date.
• A hotel room cost will be provided to you by this time. The remaining workshop fee along with this hotel room cost are due eight (8) weeks before the first day of the workshop.
• Should the Alpine Workshop organizer cancels your registered workshop due to an unforeseen circumstance, we will notify you immediately. We will work with you to issue a workshop fee refund or apply your payment to an alternative workshop within the following one (1) year. Unfortunately, the Alpine Workshop will not be able to issue any refund for other fees, including but not limited to, the hotel, flight, and car rental costs. We recommend obtain your travel insurance in advance. -
Wait List Deposit
We limit a number of attendees for workshop safety and experience management. Should a workshop become full, you can get on a Wait List.
- You can make a USD 200 deposit to join the Wait List to a full workshop. The open spot will be released in the order in which the wait list was received.
- If a space is opened up more than eight (8) weeks before the first day of a workshop, you will be asked to pay an additional USD 300 to resume a standard workshop registration for a total of USD 500 first payment, refundable up to eight (8) weeks before the first workshop day.
- Eight (8) Weeks before a workshop:
- You can still cancel eight (8) weeks prior to the first day of the workshop for a 100% refund.
- If a space is opened up, we will invoice you the workshop and hotel balance. To respect others on the wait list, if you are unable to commit to an open spot within 24 hours, we will offer the spot to the next person on the wait list.
- If no space is opened up, we will refund you the USD 200. Or you can apply the credit to a future workshop or wait list.
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Force Majeure Events
A Force Majeure Event means a circumstance or an occurrence of an event that prevents a a workshop from proceeding. In such event, the impediment is beyond its reasonable control and cannot reasonably have been foreseen before and during the particular scheduled workshop. And the effects of the impediment cannot reasonably have been avoided or overcome by the Alpine Workshop nor the attendees.
In the absence of proof to the contrary, the following events are examples of Forec Majeure Events:
• War (whether declared or not), hostilities, invasion, acts of foreign enemies, extensive military mobilization;
• Civil war, riot, rebellion and revolution, military or usurped power, insurrection, acts of terrorism, sabotage or piracy;
• Currency and trade restriction, blockade, embargo, sanction;
• Act of government authority whether lawful or unlawful, compliance with any law or governmental order, expropriation, seizure of works, requisition, nationalization;
• Plague, epidemic, pandemic, natural disaster, extreme natural event, extreme weather event, nuclear, chemical or biological contamination;
• Explosion, fire, flood, earthquake, destruction of equipment, prolonged break-down of transport, telecommunication, information system, energy, theft. -
Refusal of Service
Alpine Workshop reserves the right to service at any time. To maintain a safe and productive workshop environment, we may refuse service with or without refunds depending on the circumstance. Anyone who has been given a warning but continue to conduct oneself unsafely, unproductively, including but not limited to harrassments and inappropriate conducts, will be asked to leave the workshop without any financial compensation.
The Alpine Workshop staff has the right to refuse service or suspend or revoke workshop access privileges to any Resident or guest who is not following rules, unreasonably rowdy or disturbing the use and enjoyment of others, including staff and volunteers.
Please explore our workshop schedule or register for a workshop:
>> Register for any workshop online.
>> Or email us your questions at info@alpineworkshops.com.
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