Ski resort operator Peak Resorts has withdrawn a regulatory request for an initial public offering of its stock.

Wildwood-based Peak Resorts initially filed plans for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission in April 2011 but delayed the offering due to market volatility. In November Peak expanded its previously announced plans, raising the IPO from $40.3 million to $103.5 million. The company filed a shelf registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing its IPO plans in December.

However, Bloomberg News reported that the company had postponed its offering after getting close to pricing the offer in early December.

Today, Peak Resorts notified the Securities and Exchange Commission that it withdrew its shelf registration.

"Because the company does not expect its Registration Statement ... to become effective within 60 days of the date the original Form 8-A was filed, the company respectfully requests that the Securities and Exchange Commission withdraw the Form 8-A," Peak Resort's vice president and chief financial officer Stephen Mueller wrote in a letter to the SEC. If gave no indication when it might file again.

Calls to Peak Resorts CEO Tim Boyd were not immediately returned. Peak Resorts owns or operates a dozen ski areas in the United States, including Hidden Valley in Wildwood.